Entering and Paying Bill

[Geert Janssens]

On Sunday 15 February 2015 15:09:09 Edwin Humphries wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a GnuCash newbie; just given up on Turbocash as too arcane for a
> non-accountant Treasurer of a small non-profit group.
> 
> I've set up the chart of accounts and opening balances and entered a
> budget.
> 
> I've created a vendor, entered a bill against them, and when I go to
> process payment, I get an error message "You have no valid "Post To"
> accounts. Please create an account of type "A/Payable" before you
> continue to process this payment. Perhaps you want to create an
> Invoice or Bill first?"; I've created an Accounts Payable account
> under Liabilities, but the same message appears. The Bill shows up on
> the Find Bills window, but not on the Porocess Payments window. If I
> try and Process Payments fro the Find Bill window, I'm back with the
> error.
> 
> If someone can advise where to go from here, it would be great.

Hi Edwin,

Welcome to gnucash.

As to your question: after you have created an account of type "A/Payable", you still need to 
post your bill to this account.

You can search for your bill via Business->Vendors->Find Bill... and open it in its own tab (if it's 
not still open already).

With the bill's tab in front of you click on the third icon from the right on the toolbar to post 
the bill.

If you still get the error while doing so, that probably means your account is of the wrong type.

Once the bill is posted you can pay it.

Geert