Importing invoices

[Derek Atkins]

Take a look at src/plugins/bi_import

-derek

On Mon, November 4, 2013 2:27 pm, R. Victor Klassen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I (fairly) regularly receive a (somewhat) lengthy order by email, in a
> format that I can readily copy/paste into a spreadsheet, which I do in
> order to generate a packing list.   The order contains descriptions,
> quantities and unit prices, so I have everything I need in electronic form
> to create the invoice as well - everything, that is, except the
> information that is typically autofilled when I manually type in the
> invoice.  And that could be hard coded into a script, presumably.
>
> As I understand it, I could massage that order using - e.g. /bin/nawk or
> another scripting language, or possibly just read it directly in python
> and then use the python bindings to enter the order into the data file
> used by GNUCash.  This has the disadvantage that I would have to close
> down gnuCash and restart it after, incurring the startup delay.
>
> I’m wondering whether I could write some code in a scripting language to
> put the invoice in QIF or OFX or any other format that GNUCash will
> import, and then import it, thereby avoiding the need to restart.   I just
> don’t know whether (any of) these import formats are rich enough that I
> can automatically assign accounts, taxable status, etc.
>
> Thoughts?
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