Import bank transactions and mark bill as paid?

[Derek Atkins]

Remi Christiaan Cool <moreloci at gmail.com> writes:

> Hmm, ok that's not what I hoped for, but it's clear. I don't know what the
> design philosophy is for GNUCash... but to me it's logical that if you can
> automate transactions by importing them, you can also pay bills or receive
> invoices in the same run. A simple checkbox to set the bill or invoice to paid
> would also do the trick for me ... if it would be incorporated in the import
> wizzard so that you can select the bills or invoices that are paid during the
> import procedure would be awesome ;)

Sounds like a great idea.  I look forward to reading the patch
that implements it!  :-D

Right now, however, the business features are 100% standalone.  They
don't require any changes anywhere else, and indeed you can run gnucash
without the business features at all (although nobody builds or
distributes gnucash without them).  The design idea was that you could
distribute a gnucash sans business for those who didn't care about it.
But that never really happened.

But what it means is that you don't have business object dependencies
spread throughout the code.  On the downside it means that all the
business features are collected into one space.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108570

> Remi

-derek

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