Invoices with Negative Total Amount

[Nestor Stura]

Thank you, Geert.
Hope this is solved in the future. In the meanwhile I solved it with your
suggestions.

Regards,

2011/1/19 Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>

> On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Nestor Stura wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > First of all my apologies because maybe this could be a very simple
> doubt,
> > but, as I am my own "CPA" and I know nothing at all in accounting, I must
> > post this.
> > I also posted it in the Spanish list but had no answer.
> >
> > In Spain we cannot delete an invoice, then when you should return a
> > previous invoice we must issue a new one called "factura de abono"
> > (something like "refund invoice") with the same amount of the first one.
> >
> > The problem is that in Gnucash when I finish this refund invoice and try
> to
> > post it, I get a message that Negative Total Amounts are not Accepted.
> >
> > It is not a problem with the unit quantity or the unit price that are
> > accepted. The problem is with the total.
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is a way to do this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Néstor
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> Unfortunately credit notes (or invoices with a negative total amount) are
> not
> currently possible due to limitations of the internal logic.
>
> There are two bug reports related to this:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350199
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535781
>
> The first one of those two hints at a workaround.
>
> Geert
>