Payment Assignment

[Derek Atkins]

Alun Champion <list at achampion.net> writes:

> Mac OSX, Gnucash 2.6
>
> I'm trying to understand assignment of Payments to Invoices.
> I've assigned Payments to Invoices 2 ways.
> 1) Process Payment (or Edit:Assign as Payment) -> Select Document
> (Invoice). Result: Payment transaction + link lot transactions.
> 2) Process Payment (no invoice selected), View Lots -> Assign Lots
> (scrub). Result: Payment transaction + no link lot transactions. It
> looks like the Invoice is correctly assigned, as it doesn't appear for
> the next payment.
>
> So a couple of quick questions:
> Are there any reasons for not doing it via option 2, which keeps the
> A/R account much cleaner?
> Why do the link-lot transactions not appear via option 2?

Because the scrubbing does a direct lot assignment..  This is how it was
done in 2.4.  The whole processing methodology changed in 2.6.

> Cheers
>    -A.

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-derek

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