Generating Customer Bills

[Herbert W. Eber]

Another branch:
Suppose my books now manage AR-members, consisting of reconstructed entries
and it all works - EXCEPT that some entries are wrong.  Good old Joe paid
his dues when the treasurer was mentally elsewhwere and so I need to correct
his AR.  Bus->Cus->P credits cash and thus is wrong; an attempt to post a
negative amount (accounting-ly logically correct) is rejected. Again, I am
sure that this is not a previously unfaced problem. Can you (again) point me
in the right direction?

Thanks - Herb

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Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 1:56 PM
To: 'Derek Atkins'
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Subject: RE: Generating Customer Bills

Derek,
Thanks for such rapid replies.  I meanwhile have started printing the
manual, discovering that it reads better than it jumps around in "modern"
style.  This may result in fewer questions.

As for the limited invoicing (and statement) capacity, I now understand.
Indeed, I can live with it for the Lions Club which has 60 members, half of
whom pay in the first month, the rest bye and bye; we typically send 20-odd
second notices about 3-4 months into the FY and raise hell with the laggards
3 months later.  GNU-cash can easily support that pattern.

I am curious why others in the group have not done it.  Seems like some
bright hustler might have incorporated into a systematic set of auxiliary
procs reading the data from a Gnu system and producing whatever he wants.
Perhaps that has happened; I know so little of my contemporary history
having been busy as a cockroach in my bailiwick.

Again, thanks
Herb

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:39 PM
To: Herbert W. Eber
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Generating Customer Bills

Hi,

"Herbert W. Eber" <herb.eber at psychologicalresources.com> writes:

> Derek,
> Now that you pointed me to the AR technology and I have some ARs, the 
> receivables aging report is ideal for one of the questions I asked.
> The other is:
>
> How can I prepare the end of month (or whatever time) bills to send to 
> a non-trivial number of customers whose AR accounts are up to date and 
> show a non zero balance/  One at a time?  I hope not.

Unfortunately there is no easy way to mass create invoices.  You can
duplicate older invoices to effectively re-issue new invoices, but you still
need to do it one-at-a-time.  When I wrote the code I wrote it for my usage,
which was a consultant with a small number of concurrent customers, so
invoicing wasn't a common task, and repetative invoicing was a non-existing
task.

> Herb

-derek

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