Mass invoicing

[H.S.]

Hello,

Marcus Wolschon wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:31:26 -0400, "Matt Weisberg" <matt at weisberg.net>
> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That is of cause possible. I'm trying to collect some more answers from
> the gnucash-users -list to find out how to make such a thing usefull to
> more then one user.
> I guess most users will not find it usefull to generate the exact
> same invoice and to generate it for all users but will want some
> kind of user-selection.
> Maybe I can do something usefull with scripting in jGnucashEditor.
> (That would require a user able to express his requirements in a few lines
>  of javascript the first time it is done.)



I am in sort of a similar situation. I recently intalled GnuCash on my
Debian machine to see if it allows to generate yearly invoices for
customer specifying just the total amount.

The problem is this (this is in a community organization):

1. There is a list of donors who donate to the org. I suppose each donor
is going to have an account. I am just not sure what kind of account is
it supposed to be, AR, Income, Assets? The account must have the
telephone number and the address of the donor.

2. Whenever a donor donates, the donation gets recorded as a transaction.

3. At the end of a year, we are supposed to generate an invoice or
receipt for the donor. The receipt must have donor's address and tel.
number and the total amount he donates in the past year. Further, three
copies of this data are needed. Best option would be to somehow print
them all on one sheet so that, for example, the donor can tear one part
out and send it to the govt. for tax deductions.


So, is the above scenario really related to this thread? If not, I will
start another one.

However, if this is already possible in GnuCash, could someone give me
pointers to online documentation which describes how to go about doing
this sort a thing.

Regards.