Fast receipt entry into gnuCash

Nelson Handcock nelson.handcock at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 15:30:21 EDT 2015


Apologies if I have "hijacked" the original thread. Yes I guess it is
different as you say, but earlier on in the thread there is mention of
generating bar/qr codes from a list of transactions.

Thanks & Regards,

Nelson Handcock
0409 149919

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

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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