Debit order payments

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Please remember to CC Gnucash-user on all replies using your
mailer's Reply-to-list or Reply-All features.

Neil Jackson <neil at webcoza.co.za> writes:

> Hi,
> Thanks for the reply. If the business features aren't what I need, what do I
> need. I chose gnucash because I don't know any other, running on Linux.
> Previously this was done externally on windows machines

In your situation I would just use regular transactions.  The
auto-debit is, well, automatic.  So you only really need to keep
track of the exceptions.  Do you really NEED to send out an
actual Invoice every month?

The current A/R implementation really isn't designed for your
particular use case.  It's designed for a 1:1 mapping of incoming
payments to customers.  You have a single incoming "payment" for
a BUNCH of customers, which just isn't something the system is
designed the handle.

But you could still do it as a regular register-entered transaction.
You just lose the business features, but I'm not sure you really
need to keep track of that.  Is it even possible for a direct-debit
customer to miss a payment?

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     
>     Neil Jackson <neil at webcoza.co.za> writes:
>
>         Hi,
>         I run a web design and hosting company. We charge a monthly hosting
>         fee. We use a debit order services to collect the monies from our
>         customers. The services takes a percentage and deposits the balance in
>         our account. How do I allocate this payment to multiple invoices over
>         multiple accounts?
>
>     Um, the only way I can think of doing it is via an intermediary
>     account.  There's no way to split a single payment transaction against
>     multiple customers, so you'll need to do individual payments
>     >From A/R to some other holding account and then the debit transfer
>     to your checking.
>     
>     I'm actually wondering if the Business features really are what you
>     need here??
>
>         Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>         You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

-derek
-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available