possible to download my orders from PayPal?

[Mike Evans]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I do not use any business features of Gnucash, but I will hazard the guess that Gnucash will not address your needs, as stated.
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> Gnucash supports a limited number of import formats (such as OFX and QIF). I don't know of any such standard for the kind of information you are hoping to import.
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> I see that PayPal offers an export report in some sort of spreadsheet format; you would have to use that in conjunction with a spreadsheet-to-qif converter for any transactions, the result of which would be importable as a QIF. However, there is no support for importing customer information, as far as I know. Furthermore, Gnucash is not an inventory control software package. For those features, you'd have to write the code.
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> David
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> ________________________________
>  From: Ronnie Smart <reader82047 at yahoo.com>
> To: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> 
> Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 1:04 PM
> Subject: possible to download my orders from PayPal?
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> 
> About 2 weeks ago I posted this question but I have not received a single reply. So I'm asking again. 
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> I sell my products online with the orders going into a PayPal shopping cart and payments processed by PayPal. Can anyone tell me, step-by-step, how to download my 
> sales orders directly into GnuCash?  Ideally it will add the new 
> customer details or recognize repeat customers. Also, it will list the 
> items purchased and quantity for each person, producing a sales invoice and packing slip.
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> Thanks in advance.
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>

As far as I can tell PayPal allows you to download transaction data in CSV format and GnuCash has a CSV import facility so transaction import is possible.  

There's also http://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=guide section 17.1 where CSV data can be used to create bills or invoices.

These may provide a partial solution, but as David says though GnuCash is not an inventory system.

MikeE

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