Problem processing a payment

[Brian Marr]

Cheers Derek. Food for thought.

On 22 August 2010 05:40, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> mkbr1 <cabernet4 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Gnucash 2.2.9
> >
> > Greetings all.
> >
> > While reconciling my bank account I came across the following.
> >
> > The bank statement shows a payment of $xx. I find the invoice in my
> Gnucash
> > Data File, but no payment is recorded. I proceed to record the payment. I
> > search for the invoice with Ctr - F, then searching on value $xx, I am
> able
> > to bring up the invoice. Selecting the option to view the invoice, I can
> see
> > yes this the one. When selecting "process payment" I get the payment
> > information window showing all details - but not the $xx figure. It is
> about
> > half the amount.
> >
> > When I search for the invoice it shows one figure while this shows
> another.
> > Could this be something to do with a setting that splits a payment ? When
> I
> > go ahead and process this payment and look at the transaction in its
> > respective account it shows the correct total and two figures - one below
> > the other, that make up the total $xx
> >
> > Any ideas on what may be happening here ?
>
> This happens due to a 'pre-payment' or 'over payment'.  For example, if
> you have an two invoices for $50 and then process a payment for $75 it
> will apply $50 to the first invoice, and then $25 to the second invoice.
>
> There is an open bug where this kind of split can happen when it
> shouldn't.  Reproducing it is hard (at least for me).
>
> -derek
>
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>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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