Plans for deleting invoices, bills, customers and vendors in a future release & requesting enhancements

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

David Gillam <dave at davegillam.org> writes:

> Deleting invoices, etc, will likely result in skipped invoice numbers, which will increase your chances of being audited, as I understand it.

Moreover, there is a lot of logic that would be required to make sure
that when you delete an invoice it also deleted other stuff that can be,
but the heuristics to determine what is "safe" to delete are hard, so it
was punted.

> Reuse those mistaken invoices for different customers.

This is definitely the first suggestion.

> The inactive flag is, I believe, to indicate a customer who has not bought anything in a long time.

Well, the inactive flag exists to hide objects from the default
searches.  You can use it for customers, vendors, or even invoices!  :)
This is suggested in lieu of deleting an object.

> Cheers,
>
> David

-derek

> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Keith Fetterman <kfetterman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are there plans in a future release to provide the functionality to delete
>> invoices, bills customers and vendors?  Or, is this the purpose of the
>> inactive flag on these records?  It would be nice to get rid of these
>> records when mistakes are made.
>> 
>> How do you make a request for an enhancement in GnuCash?
>> 
>> I have some other enhancements that I'd like to suggest, for example:
>> 
>> 1. It would be nice to open invoices from the A/R register and bills from
>> the A/P register.
>> 
>> 2. When processing a payment, I would like to see a list the open invoices
>> and select the invoices to be paid when paying more than one invoice.
>> Sames goes with bills.  This feature exists in Quicken Home and Business
>> and its a really nice feature.
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