Associating a customer with a split (was Opening a lot?)

[John Ralls]

On Oct 23, 2012, at 6:36 PM, ArtBra New Haven <artbra at hyre.net> wrote:

>   Dear GNUCash:
> 
> On 10/23/2012 09:57 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>> The Lots function is for calculating capital gains on
>> stock sales, not for keeping track of T-shirts. It's not
>> very flexible and won't really do what you want.
> 
>   I know that GC, and particularly lots, isn't for inventory control.
> But it was a great excuse to play with a shiny new toy, and see just how
> far I could twist it out of shape---on _that_ level it would do what I
> want it to do.  :-)  However, I can read the writing on the flat panel...
> 
> 
> On 10/23/2012 09:13 AM, Michale D Novack inscribed:
>> 3) If you do want to track amounts by size just set up the
>> goods inventory account with the children by size.
> 
>   Yup, that's what I've been doing, so I'll just stay with it.  The
> stock requirements are so trivial, it just doesn't seem worthwhile to
> use a separate mechanism, even one so simple as a spreadsheet.
> 
>   Thank you both for your clear and well-explained advice; I'll leave
> lots until I try to set up stocks on my personal accounts.
> 
>   However while I have your attention, I'll ask another possibly-obtuse
> question.  Is there any way to associate a transaction (actually, a
> split) with a customer without generating an invoice?  I'm looking to
> get a report saying customer A spent $X, and customer B spent $Y.
> 

AFAIK the only easy way to do that is to set up per-customer sub-accounts of income:sales.

Alternatively, you could put the customer in the memo field for the split, but you'd have to write a custom report to group by the memo field, which is hard unless you can write Scheme.

Regards,
John Ralls