Using Customer or Vendor accounts to track donations

[Dustin Henning]

	If you are hand-writing receipts, you can make a cash account for
the donations and then do a combined deposit from the cash account to the
bank account.  This would affect real life well enough.  If you want to keep
track of donations per donor easily, the extra work for customer setups
would probably be worthwhile.  I haven't done any business accounting, so I
can't help with your seemingly missing account, but I can tell you that when
I created securities with a "template" exchange they disappeared from the
securities editor (but not the drop-down selection in the list of securities
for stock accounts).  The manual didn't help with that specifically, but it
did point out that I could create new exchanges by typing them in instead of
using the template exchange, so that was helpful.  As such, I recommend
checking out the help section in the program and/or the getting-started
guide available on the website, as they may show you what went wrong
(assuming you didn't just quit without saving).
	Dustin

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From: gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
John Dunshee
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 17:46
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Using Customer or Vendor accounts to track donations

We have the donations accumulate for a couple of weeks and them make one
combined deposit in the bank account. So I don't want the donations posted
to the bank accounts separately. We make a combined deposit whenever we have
enough to make it worthwhile. 



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From: "John Dunshee [via GnuCash]"
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To: "John Dunshee" <schmuck281 at comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:38:45 PM
Subject: Re: Using Customer or Vendor accounts to track donations 

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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