Hayes Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

[Derek Atkins]

Small correction..  You could assign each split to an INVOICE.  Although
though this method there's no reason you couldn't apply a single payment
transaction to multiple customers (through multiple invoices), for example
if you deposit multiple checks at once.  However that might be a little
confusing, and I dont know how well the reports would handle that.

-derek

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Quoting THayes <asl4u at localnet.com>:

> that would Certainly work for me...
> here's to hope
> and thanks for the reply!
>
> Terri Hayes
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> * forwarded to the list *
>>
>> I'm afraid that I just don't see this feature ever happening unless
>> someone out there sends in a patch for it.  I don't have the time
>> to even think about how to solve this for now...  The final solution
>> here is PROBABLY going to be related to the fix to the "Assign splits
>> to customers" <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108570>
>> and then you could enter a split-transaction in the register and
>> assign each split to each customer.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> THayes <asl4u at localnet.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi. I am in the process of switching to GNUCash from Quicken. I've
>>> been trying to do this for several years - it is happening now.
>>>
>>> I'm writing because you made a reply to someone asking about doing
>>> multiple non-consecutive invoices for the payment process
>>>
>>> saying that "to do that would be arbitrarily complex."
>>>
>>> but -
>>> I am a service provider. Interpreter. I work for several entities in
>>> the course of one day - and I also do subcontract work for an
>>> agency. The agency, depending on the type of job (there are two types)
>>> pays a different rate - and pays on different time lines. Invoices go
>>> to the company every day that I do work for them but payment will be
>>> made for some jobs in two weeks and for other jobs in 30 days.
>>>
>>> Arbitrarily complex... but it is what my current receivables system
>>> looks like.
>>>
>>> I do not know what it would take to make GNUCash show a list of
>>> invoices and let you "reconcile" those that have been paid with this
>>> check... and not applying payment to those that have not been paid -
>>> I'm not a programmer (sigh... you have me captive!)
>>>
>>> but I did want to tell you that sometimes we do not choose the
>>> arbitrarily complex situations we find ourselves in - and many of us
>>> have no power to change systems that already exist and obviously are
>>> satisfactory to the people who created them (like your invoices are
>>> satisfactory to you.. and like the payment periods are satisfactory to
>>> the company I subcontract for)...
>>>
>>> well - thanks for listening - I've got about 21 individual invoices I
>>> need to find, select, enter payment info and post as
>>> received... before I'm off to another job tonight.
>>>
>>> thanks for listening.
>>> and in case you aren't aware - I really do appreciate that GNUCash HAS
>>> invoices... its tedious - but an amazing and very useful feature.
>>>
>>> thank you thank you thank you!
>>> Terri Hayes
>>>
>>> and - this did not go to the list - because I dont know how.
>>> sorry
>>>
>>>
>>
>



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