AP Bills Not Marked "Paid"

[Derek Atkins]

HI,

blackhawke <blackhawke at vetl.org> writes:

> Okay, I know this has come up before, I have yet to see a resolution. (Though
> I do see lots of discussion. :-P)
>
> I have a growing number of "bills" (going back 18 months) that remain
> unpaid, even though they  have been paid. And yes, they were entered
> appropriately ("New Bill") and paid appropriately ("Process Payment"), etc.
> "Vendor report" shows the appropriate balance due. In fact, everything seems
> hunky dory except for this little issue -- which is only annoying in that it
> makes the "bills due" pop-up perfectly useless.
>
> I have tried, and marginally succeeded in using the "manual" method
> "forcing" the bills paid flag to be set: I.E. delete the payments on the
> "cash" side and re-enter them again via "Process Payments". But it doesn't
> help the day to day entering of  payments to vendors that leave the bills
> marked as "unpaid." And since some vendors can generate a half a dozen
> invoices ("bills") a day, there are quite a few transactions here to deal
> with.
>
> So... Is their some other fix for this in the works? I just upgraded from
> FC6 (which was GC 2.0 something) to Ubuntu 8.10, so am now running GC 2.2.6
> -- the latest in the Intrepid Distro. I had hoped the GC 2.2x would solve
> this, but it hasn't.
>
>
> (Oh: And for the record: No, I don't go in and edit paid "bills." So
> un-posting and reposting paid "bills" is not the cause.)

Can you check your AP account and look for Auto Split Transactions
in the account?

Bills get paid FIFO towards the Vendors so if you have multiple bills
to one vendor it's possible that it's not paying them in the order
you think they are.

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-derek

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