how do I enter a customer pre-payment

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 08 May 2014 15:11:42 Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 May 2014 20:49:10 Earl Marwil wrote:
> > I recently upgraded to gnucash 2.6.3 on Fedora 20. I'm having
> > trouble
> > figuring out how to process a customer pre-payment.
> > 
> > Under the Business menu item, selecting Customer->Process Payment, I
> > select the customer. No Documents (invoices) are displayed since the
> > account is current. I enter a payment amount and select a Transfer
> > Account.
> > 
> > There is a warning icon in the lower left corner stating "You must
> > select at least one document or pre-payment to process." and the OK
> > button is disabled. Where do I find "pre-payment" to select?
> 
> Oops, I'm afraid you have just found a bug. I didn't consider this
> case when fixing another problem in this area.
> 
> The only workaround I can imagine right now is to enter the payment as
> an ordinary transaction in you checking account and when the invoice
> appears use the "Assign as payment" menu item on that transaction.
> 
> I'll look into fixing this.
> 
I have pushed a fix into the maintenance branch. This will be fixed 
again in gnucash 2.64.

Geert