Process Payment Feature Request

[Maf. King]

On Friday 01 Feb 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:35:28PM -0600, Josh Trutwin wrote:
> > Hi - couple issues with the "Process Payment" process.

> ...
>
> > 3. When the payment is put in the checking account register, the
> > description just has the customer's name - this isn't very
> > convenient.  Could the invoice number also be added to the
> > description?  "ABC Inc. - Payment of Invoice #0001"  I realize I
> > could do this manually, but for processing lots of invoices would be
> > a time-saver.
>
> as I said in the other thread, gnucash doesn't apply payments to
> specific invoices, but instead applies them to the account as a
> whole. THe "paid" status of the invoices is purely a function of the
> amount paid and the invoices age in the list.
>

Hi,

Firstly, I'll note that the "memo" field in the process payment dialogue will 
end up in the split detail for the transaction in your current account.  I do 
exactly what you want, and list the invoice No(s). the payment relates to.

I'll also note, that I believe that as of V2.0.0 it is possible to pay a 
_single_ invoice out of the usual FIFO sequence.  I don't think there is any 
special magic to it, you just process the payment in the usual way - If I 
have that wrong, then hopefully Warlord will chip in here...

Cheers,
Maf.