matching invoice payment to existing checking acct entry

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 15 February 2014 19:34:35 vzuyxbysla wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2014 at 10:34, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > On Friday 14 February 2014 13:24:19 vzuyxbysla wrote:
> > > Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for. I have two
> > 
> > questions:
> > > 1., it seems that it will show either "Customer" or "Vendor" and
> > > there doesn't seem to be any sort of way to make it do one or
> > 
> > the
> > 
> > > other. What is the criteria for which one it picks?
> > 
> > The algorithm is fairly primitive: if the transaction increases the
> > balance of your asset/liability account it will show you "Customer".
> > Otherwise you'll get "Vendor".
> > 
> > > 2. I doesn't seem to want to show "Employee" expense vouchers.
> > 
> > Is
> > 
> > > there a way to have that?
> > 
> > This was not (yet) taken into account. There is an open enhancement
> > request to improve the feature [1]. Part of the suggested/implied
> > improvements is to allow a selection of employee payments as well.
> > 
> > Geert
> > 
> > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719904
> 
> Geert, thank you for your replies.
> 
> I just tried to use this facility for the first time and it didn't
> work too well for me.
> 
> I have a customer that paid me and I had an invoice already posted. I
> was using an imported value in my checking account to assign as
> payment. It went ahead and acted correctly, showing me the proper
> screens and proper payment, but it created an A/R entry that was a
> split entry: one of the splits being the checking account value and
> the other being a zero entry for "Imbalance USD". This looks like a
> bug?  Also, I noticed that there was not a "P", rather a "?".
> 
This is indeed a bug and easily to reproduce. I have just pushed some 
changed in the code to fix this. It now works correctly for me.

These fixes will appear in GnuCash 2.6.2 early March.

Regards,

Geert