Fast receipt entry into gnuCash

[Derek Atkins]

Nelson,

Nelson Handcock <nelson.handcock at gmail.com> writes:

> Derek,
>
> *snip I'm not sure how this helps you.  The receipts don't have QR codes on
> them, so you're already stuck keying them into something... *snip
>
> Well I download the credit transactions from the bank account or a cash
> receipting system, so the data is already in a flat file format and it would
> be great to be able to upload this direct as payments against invoices.
>
> I've tried importing the bank transactions as QIF import, but you still have
> to manually associate the transaction as a payment to an invoice (they don't
> appear as payments on the customer report until you do this) - this defeats
> any benefit of the QIF import. I've found it easier to just click on any
> invoice in the customer report and then enter a payment.

Now you are talking about a COMPLETELY different animal.  The original
question was about how to enter a bunch of receipts quickly (that have
not already been keyed into a computer).  That's COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
than "how do I import transactions as customer payments".

Please don't hijack a thread for a completely different topic; please
start a new thread.

To answer your question -- none of the importers are aware of the
business metadata; so yes, you need to manually apply the payments to
the customers.  Note that this just requires matching payment
transactions to customers (in 2.6), it does not require entering any new
data.  Yes, it's a bit extra work, but the whole business side of
gnucash is extra work.

Thank you,

> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Nelson Handcock
> 0409 149919

-derek

> http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonhandcockaustralia
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     dave <dboland9 at fastmail.fm> writes:
>    
>     > 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:
>    
>     I'm not sure how this helps you.  The receipts don't have QR codes on
>     them, so you're already stuck keying them into something.  So why key
>     them into a program to generate a QR code instead of just keying them
>     directly into GnuCash?
>    
>     > 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.
>    
>     None of my receipts have this on them.
>    
>     > 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?
>    
>     Umm... Good luck??
>    
>     > Dave,
>    
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>    
>     -derek
>    
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