Using Customer or Vendor accounts to track donations

[John Dunshee]

I am trying to do that. I was thinking of entering my donor list as customers
and using invoices but I can't seem to get the accounts set up correctly. I
had a Donor account as Acct/R but Gnucash doesn't see it and keeps saying I
have no account to post to. Then it wants another account as well. It looks
to me to be too much trouble having to use a customer acct, an invoice, an
acct/r and an income acct.

It seems to me that it would be easier to just have an Donor income acct and
enter the donations in the register and continue to hand write the receipts.
We have been doing it by hand for years.

But I was hoping to kind of automate the process instead of just the
arithmetic. I wanted a donor account for each donor that I could bring up
and enter the amount, have it entered in the register and maybe print a
receipt. None of the accounting programs I have looked at are set up to
handle a process like that.

Gnucash and Quickbooks seem to be fundamentally the same but Quickbooks has
been getting terrible reviews as far as support goes, so I decided to go
with Gnucash. I'm kind of struggling to get it to do what I want.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

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