Custom vs Development?

[Jean-David Beyer]

Hubert Bahr wrote (in part):
> I am using Gnucash to track my Churches Income and Expenses.

> Donation transaction that doesen't require entering the amount twice.  

I am treasurer of the local Quaker Meeting (very much like a church: 
treated as such by legal authorities). We certainly accept donations.

I have a line-item for each member and I need to make only one entry for 
a donation. It is "split" (not in the sense of GnuCash) in that it has a 
line for the donor and a second for what is to be done with the 
donation; i.e., whether it goes into our capital account or our 
operating account. (We actually have only one account at the bank, but 
we treat it as two because there are restrictions on what the money in 
the capital account may be used for.)

So when I get a contribution from a member, I go to 
Income:GiftsReceived:DonorName
and enter the transaction. I tab to the field where the income goes and 
enter the amount. I then press the down-arrow key once and the tab key 
once and enter the value again as to which account it goes to.

Is your request for a different auto-fill operation? When I select a 
given donor, it pops up the last contribution he made and if it is the 
same amount as before, I just diddle the date and check number and Enter 
it. If it is a different amount, I have to enter both. It cannot really 
enter both fields because the donor may have designated part of it (this 
time) to go into capital and operating lines (a split -- this time in 
the sense of GnuCash), or just to go into a different account than before.

> Billing and Payment as one transaction, again not requiring double entry.
> 
It seems to me that GnuCash _is_ a double-entry bookkeeping system. As 
such, it needs both entries. If you leave one out, the other half of the 
transaction goes into a special account (I seem to have two: Orphan-USD 
and Imbalance-USD. Both have a balance of $0.00). I do not know which is 
used for this, since I have no entries in either account.

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