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

[John A. Wallace]

One solution you may consider is creating a customer called "Unused Invoices
#s", or something to that effect, then use this customer to "catch" any of these
numbers if need be.  You could even do this sort of thing at the end of a period
while closing, as part of your invoice number reconciliation process.

  Another valid reason for keeping track of all the numbers might be to prevent
the incidence of a dishonest employee using company invoices to present
fraudulent bills to customers, whose payments the employee could then pocket. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces+jw72253=verizon.net at gnucash.org [mailto:gnucash-
> user-bounces+jw72253=verizon.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Derek Atkins
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 11:32 AM
> To: David Gillam
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Plans for deleting invoices, bills, customers and vendors in a
> future release & requesting enhancements
> 
> 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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