Clearing incompletely paid invoices in the business module (in gnucash 2.5.9)

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 23 January 2014 18:55:13 Guido Flohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using a git checkout b7b5128+.
> 
> I had a little credit (36.50) originating from an overpaid invoice
> from last year with one of my vendors.  Now the first invoice from
> this vendor arrived (69.00) and I have paid only the difference
> (32.50) by bank transfer.
> 
> I then imported the bank transactions, and had a hard time assigning
> the transaction as a payment in such a way that the invoice was
> marked as "paid".  What I did was:
> 
> I selected the customer, and the associated account (that had a
> balance of 36.50).  I was then presented a choice of three documents
> to pick from.  The invoice over 69.00, and two pre-payments of 32.50
> and 36.50 respectively.
> 
> After several unsuccessful tries I selected the invoice and changed
> the sum of the payment from 32.50 to 69.00.  The resulting
> transaction then contained an imbalance split of 36.50 that I
> deleted.
> 
> All balances are now correct and the invoice is finally marked as
> paid. But is that really the intended way to handle such a case?
> 
> Thanks,
> Guido
This is not the intended way to handle such case. There appear to be 
some bugs in the assign transaction as payment together with how the new 
payment dialog works.

Can you create a bug report for this in bugzilla [1] please ?

Thanks,

Geert

[1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla