Trying Gnucash to replace Quickbooks

[R. Victor Klassen]

Yes, use the business features.  I too switched from Quickbooks.   When I receive a check/cheque I assign the payment to the relevant invoice and then it goes into an account called “undeposited cheques”.  To do a deposit I do a split entry in the account to which the deposit is being made.  While Quickbooks let me (forced me) to select the cheques from a list of undeposited cheques, GNUcash lets me just go ahead an enter anything in each line in the split.  From time to time I go through the Undeposited Cheques account and verify that it is zero after each deposit.   In the split memo fields I record the payor and # to help in tracking down discrepancies.  What I do prefer about GNUcash is that the amounts in deposits that come from petty cash don’t have to correspond to specific receipts, which they seemed to in Quickbooks.

On Mar 20, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:34:19 -0400
> <gnucash at ware4.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think I've run into a show-stopper(?) I'm trying to split the first
>> deposit from several renters and found that there is no place to edit
>> the "deposit ticket," entering the customer, payment method (check,
>> money order, cashiers' check, etc.) and check #. In Quickbooks a
>> deposit dialogue opens with a small spreadsheet to record Received
>> From, From Account (an income account), Memo, Chk No., Pmt Method and
>> Amount. I cannot find the same functionality within Gnucash - the
>> ledger only seems to provide Memo fields when split.
> 
> I suggest using the business features, so you make those renters into
> customers, make invoices and then put the payments in through that
> system.
> 
> I think this would cover all your needs.
> Please ask again as needed.
> 
> Liz
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