making a payment to an invoice from Accounts Receivable

[Jason Stewart]

Ah... yes... I did not know about that function... Thanks!

That brings up another question. And it is not GnuCash specific but perhaps
more of a general accounting question.

I am organizing an event and collecting accomodation money for the event
and I have used GnuCash to generate all my invoices. None of that money
will go to me but instead I will pay all of it to the venue. How do I
account for this? In GnuCash when I made the invoices GnuCash wanted an
income account to register the payments into. So now when I process a
payment it shows up as income - but it isn't. I attempted to make the
"income" account Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable but it was not
possible to select either of those - I guess the software is restricting
the choice based on the 'type' of account.

Any suggestions?

Thanks! jas...


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:

> On Jul 16, 2014, at 5:11 PM, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I just went through this. You need to delete the payments from their
> > destination accounts, unpost the invoice, fix it, re-post it, and
> > reapply payments.
>
> I'm not an expert on that part of GnuCash, but I think you can also fix it
> by using the "apply payment to invoice" function on the payment after
> reposting the invoice.  I did this recently and it seemed to work.
>
>                Mike
>




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