Posting an Invoice Error

[Derek Atkins]

For vendors it's A/P, not A/R.
Make sure you have a valid A/P account.

-derek

On Tue, June 2, 2015 7:41 am, ebmarnp wrote:
> Yes I have the A/R account set up but I can't access it as an option when
> I'm the menu that pops up when trying to post the invoice.
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Alice Lee [via GnuCash] <
> ml-node+s1415818n4678541h91 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:
>
>> For vendors you should be posting to accounts payable.  Have you set
>> that
>> account up?
>>
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>> I'm sorry for forgetting this detail.
>> Yes I have an A/R account. What I did was create ANOTHER A/R account
>> under
>> the A/R account and it worked...
>> But this same account won't work for invoices I am creating for jobs for
>> Vendors.
>> The currency is the same.
>> I am running GNU 6.6.6 on Windows 8.1. Thanks.
>>
>> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Geert Janssens-4 [via GnuCash] <
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>> > On Friday 29 May 2015 19:35:56 ebmarnp wrote:
>> > > Thank you in advance for helping me with this issue!
>> > > I am trying to post an invoice for the first time and it won't give
>> > > me the option to choose Accounts Receivable. It is grayed out and
>> > > it's forcing me to create a new high level account. What am I doing
>> wrong?
>>
>> > > Thank you for your assistance!
>> > >
>> > > Liz
>> > >
>> > Hi Liz,
>> >
>> > The most obvious question to ask is of course: do you have an Accounts
>> > Receivable account ? And if so is it in the same currency as the
>> > customer ?
>> >
>> > Can you also tell us which version of gnucash you are running and on
>> > which operating system (Windows/OS X/linux flavour) ?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Geert
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