How to Use Split Transactions to Pay Several Vendors (Not Just The Expense Accounts)

[Maf. King]

On Friday 04 February 2011 21:00:25 Jane Stowe wrote:
>
> I should also say in case it was confusing earlier that I'm not using
> Gnucash to track my own personal finances, it's for tracking the
> playgroup's finances.....just in case anyone's reading it & takes it up the
> wrong way.
>

Hi Jane,
Ahh, that makes a difference to my previous answer, which you can largely 
disregard!

The problem I think you are having is to combine several different vendors 
bills into one "process payment" transaction, and you *can't* do that with 
splits.  

I think you will need to do this using an intermediate account, something like 
Liabilities:OwedToJane. 
Process payment to each vendor in turn, but assign the txn to L:OTJ not 
Bank:Current.  then do one big txn from Bank:Current to zero L:OTJ.

Note that you might have to use Asset:LTJ (it will end up with an 
increasing -ve) as I'm not sure that you can pay a  vendor from a Liability 
account.

HTH,
Maf.