invoices: "P" and "I"

[Derek Atkins]

Jannick Asmus <jannick.news at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>>> what do the attributes "P" and "I" of invoices exactly mean? What effect
>>> does a switch between them have?
>
>> IIRC, they mark a txn as either "Payment" or "Invoice".  
>
> What exactly does that mean? Maybe there is some link to some documentation?

Which word don't you understand?  The transaction is either
from an "Invoice", or it's from a "Payment".  You shouldn't
touch these entries.  Then again, you shouldn't ever make any
manual entries to an A/R or A/P account.

>> I wasn't aware that you could change them manually.
>
> Easy from P to I, but reverse it seems to be a difficult. I had to 
> "erase" a part of a booking to amend the accounting method.

See above about never manually making entries into a/r or a/p.....

> J.

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