Entering and Paying Bill

[Edwin Humphries]

Geert,

Thank you so much for this: I simply couldn't get past it. Now to work 
my way through the rest of it :-\

Regards,
Edwin Humphries
Mobile: 0419 233 051


On 17/02/15 03:22, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> 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
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> > non-accountant Treasurer of a small non-profit group.
>
> >
>
> > I've set up the chart of accounts and opening balances and entered a
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> > budget.
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> >
>
> > I've created a vendor, entered a bill against them, and when I go to
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> > process payment, I get an error message "You have no valid "Post To"
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> > accounts. Please create an account of type "A/Payable" before you
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> > continue to process this payment. Perhaps you want to create an
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> > Invoice or Bill first?"; I've created an Accounts Payable account
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> > under Liabilities, but the same message appears. The Bill shows up on
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> > the Find Bills window, but not on the Porocess Payments window. If I
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> > try and Process Payments fro the Find Bill window, I'm back with the
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> > error.
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> >
>
> > 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
>

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