Fast receipt entry into gnuCash

Nelson Handcock nelson.handcock at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 18:38:13 EDT 2015


It would be great to see some development in this area...

I can download a csv file of invoice or bill data, massage it into the
format required and import it into Gnucash no problems.

It would be great if I could download a similar list of payments so that it
could be then imported. MS Office can generate and display a bar code
(dunno about a more modern QR code).

I guess the key info for generating a barcode/QR Code for a payment would
be the customer ID, payment date, credit account name and amount.

But what device or method would be required to scan the code, interpret it
and import it into Gnucash?







Thanks & Regards,

Nelson Handcock
0409 149919

http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonhandcockaustralia

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:14 AM, dave <dboland9 at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Ok, I admit I'm a little lazy, and that I have three months of receipts to
> enter.  But hey, who has not been there?  I was thinking, it would be great
> if there was a really fast way to enter recipts into gnuCash (this is a
> very
> boring task).  Then it hit me - QR codes.  Here is how my idea would work:
>
> 1. You go to the store an purchase something.  You get a receipt, and the
> receipt has a QR code at the bottom that contains the store name and
> location, the date of purchase, the amount, and mayment method.
>
> 2. Accumulate a few weeks of receipts (like most of us do).
>
> 3. Start gnuCash, then grap a QR code reader of some sort.  Scan the code,
> and gnuCash pops up a screen to enter the account(s), hit Eneter, next
> receipt.
>
> Cool - right?
>
> Of course we would need the cooperation of our friends from Intuit,
> retailers, and perhaps some sort of standards org.  Oh, and the gnuCash
> developers/community.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Dave,
>
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