Business-feature questions

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Fri, June 3, 2011 8:30 am, Gareth Edwards wrote:
> On 1 June 2011 07:06, Gareth Edwards <gareth at edwardsfamily.org.uk> wrote:
>> I'm trying to use GnuCash to run the finances of a social club and I
>> have a couple of questions about the use of the invoicing and A/R in
>> GnuCash. Each member is a Customer, and subscriptions are invoiced
>>
>> 1) Quite a few members pay in advance, which GC is showing as
>> pre-payment in A/R, which is fine. However, I can't figure out how to
>> show the current balance for any given member. How do I do this?
>>
>> 2) One of our members has a positive balance and has decided to pay
>> the subscriptions for this month on behalf of another member out of
>> this balance. How do I transfer a payment from one Customer into the
>> account of another Customer?
>>
>
> I guess this can't be done then? I'll have to revert to manual
> spreadsheets if that's the case, which will be a shame.

The former should be possible in the Customer Report.  Have you tried
that?  The latter is not currently possible -- there is no way for one
customer to pay "on behalf of" another customer.

> Gareth

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-derek