Mass invoicing

[Matt Weisberg]

Since I just started looking at GNUCash and don't totally understand how it works and stores data, I'm not sure if I can answer accurately.

But for my needs, I need to periodically run an invoice for every single customer (home owners in my case) in GNUCash for the same amount (item), which is the association dues.  I need to print these out so I can mail them.  Pretty basic requirement really.  I guess I would hope that the data source for the customer IDs could be wherever they are stored in GNUCash, but it could be a text file export if it had to be.  And the output template I would think would be the same one that is used within GNUCash I guess (I'm not sure what other viable options there are for this).

Matt


>>> On 10/8/2008 at  2:23 AM, in message
<e18657350810072323p66762633u8ccf134173e053fc at mail.gmail.com>, "Marcus
Wolschon" <Marcus at Wolschon.biz> wrote:
> 2008/10/7 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>> Unfortunately there is no easy way to do Mass Invoicing, creating
>> multiple invoices at once.  Right now you have to manually enter
>> each one.
> 
> I could easily write a trivial command-line application in Java
> do create invoices in a gnucash-file using jGnucashLib.
> The question is:
> * What kind of data-source for the customer-ids and the items on the
> invoices do people need?
> * What kind of output and template for the printable invoices are prefered?
>  (It's no use to just have the invoice in gnucash, you probably need a
> printed one or a digitally
>  signed pdf for invoice-emails.)
> 
> Automation is actually quite easy if you don't do it in gnucash itself.
> That's not what it exists for.
> 
> Marcus