Fast receipt entry into gnuCash

Michael Ferrara mferrara1 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 18:03:41 EDT 2015


Gnucash already has autocomplete.  Enter the first two or three letters of
the transaction in the description field of your journal and edit the
values using tab and the number pad. It helps if the register preferences
are set so that 'enter moves to a blank transaction.'   A bonus of doing it
this way is that by virtue of double-entry balancing, gnucash will
calculate the difference in cost since the last sale for you.  Takes
seconds per receipt... which can be faster than the glitchy calculators we
call smartphones. I have never used a QR code and respectfully think they
are awfully pretentious, though your mileage may vary.
On Jun 24, 2015 2:00 PM, "dave boland" <dboland9 at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> How would this be more practical????  I want fast entry into a gnuCash
> account using a qr code and hand scanner/smartphone.  You want me to
> photograph the receipt, run a reader app., the manually enter the data?
> Really!
>
> Dave,
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015, at 04:02 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> > On 22 June 2015 at 21:14, 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:
> >
> > A more practical idea might be to photograph the receipt and interpret
> > the image to identify as much as possible of the transaction and then
> > manually enter the rest.  One could imagine this as an extension to
> > gnucash mobile.
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > >
> > > 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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