Invoicing for a School

[Derek Atkins]

hi,

Kris <ellsinore at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm no stranger to accounting concepts, but I'm having trouble
> wrapping my head around how to set up GnuCash for our particular
> situation -- a school that needs to invoice each month for tuition.
>
> Many of our parents have more than one student enrolled, and each
> student from one family gets a progressively discounted rate.  I tried
> setting up each "student" as a "job," but other than creating a "job"
> I can't find where you actually do anything with it after that?
>
> Setting up each student as a separate "company" doesn't make much
> sense -- sending multiple, separate invoices to each parent.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this, or have a link to a
> "how-to?" Google comes up with a lot of hits for "student" and
> "school" -- but they all seem to be about how GnuCash is a great free
> resource for students and schools -- but not how to actually set it up
> for that use?
>
> It's okay if you think I sound stupid -- I'm sure feeling that way
> right about now.

You probably want to set up each "Family" as a customer.  Then when you
invoice them you can put each student as a different line-item with
different amounts.  Unfortunately there's just not a good way that I can
think of to organize the system where each student has an "identity" in
the system.

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-derek

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