Cost of Goods Sold disappears from Invoices

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Mar 2 11:06:39 EST 2015


Hi Jill,

"geminigoddess1962 at gmail.com" <geminigoddess1962 at gmail.com> writes:

> I am new to GNUCash but love that I can track my personal and two small
> business with it. I've used QuickBooks and Quicken extensively so have a
> decent handle on how GNUCash works.
>
> I have a kitchen and bath design company and my husband has a construction
> business. 
>
> We purchase "job materials" for customers and I need to be able to bill
> those "job materials" back to the customers when the job is complete.
>
> I've figured out that I need to check the "billable" column on the vendor
> invoice after I've entered the customer name and job information.
>
> When it comes time to invoice the customer - the job materials do show up. I
> select the income account for the materials to be "income - reimbursed
> expenses". I add a labour line with income account of "income-sales" and
> click save.
>
> Here's the weird part - when I click on the "post invoice" icon - the
> materials lines disappear, but the labour portion remains.
>
> When I check my accounts receivable account and/or the customer report - the
> only amount showing up is the labour portion.
>
> I don't understand why the job materials disappear off the invoice.
>
> I have WIN 7, not sure of the version of GNUCash, but it was downloaded in
> the last month.
>
> I did check the forums for answers to this question - but didn't see
> anything. If anyone has thoughts on what is going on I will appreciate
> hearing from you very much.

When you're editing the invoice items, you need to click into the first
column (Invoiced?) to attach the chargeback items to that particular
invoice.

> Jill

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-derek

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