invoice:payments not 1:1 advice?

[Karl Grant]

You'll probably get more advanced advice than mine but ...

The way most businesses work is by treating each customer as an account.
When you invoice them the balance in their account is decreased and the
opposite when they pay. GNUcash uses whatever money paid to clear the oldest
invoice first. Taxation is also based on when the money comes in, rather
than which invoice it was for.

HTH, IANAA etc
Karl
2008/7/2 Ian Smith-Heisters <i at idiosyncra.tc>:

> Hi all,
>
> I have this customer that requests weekly invoices, pays in 1
> bi-weekly check, and that check will usually not include all items
> from both invoices during the concerned timeframe, and will include
> items from invoices from past timeframes. Ugh. In illustration, things
> tend to look like this:
>
> invoice: $1000
> invoice: $500
> payment: $1200
> invoice: $1000
> invoice: $1000
> payment: $2100
>
> What's a good way to handle this in GnuCash? I just discovered the
> split transaction feature, which seems suitable, but I can't figure
> out how to associate each split with a different invoice. Also, the
> Accounts Receivable page doesn't show what invoice each payment is
> associated with, even though when you look up invoices it shows a
> "paid" checkbox, which does seem to be aware of some correlation
> between payments and invoices. Is there some way to get a breakdown of
> how payments are being associated to invoices?
>
> Thanks much,
> Ian
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Karl