Difference between Invoice POST and Process payment

[Hossain]

Thnk u so much bro. I added a transaction which I cant delete. This 
transaction is marked
read only with the comment "Generated from an invoice.", Try unposting 
the invoice.
How do I Unpost the invoice ?
What if the payment is made at the time  invoice is made, shud I PROCESS 
the payment right away ?

On 14-Sep-2015 7:53 PM, Maf. King wrote:
> On Mon 14 September 15 19:43:44 Hossain wrote:
>> Thkn u , What is  A/R (or A/P)  ?
> Accounts Receivable  (or Accounts Payable).  Generically, they are the accrual
> accounts which reflect stuff you are owed - ie outstanding customer invoices
> (or stuff you owe - so bills that are falling due)
>
> SPecifically within GC, they are special account types for the "business
> features" module to use to interact with the rest of your chart of accounts.
> As such, you shouldn't make manual entries in those type of accounts.
>
>> whats the difference between  Post Invoice and Process Payment.
>>
>
> POST invoice actually creates the transactions to your income accounts that
> are defined in the invoice.  Until you post the invoice, the income isn't
> going to show up in your reports and totals, because creating the invoice
> doesn't actually affect any register entries.
>
>     Process payment is the interface to allocate a payment to one or more
> invoices (which is usually at some different time than the when invoice was
> written)
>
> Also, please keep replies on the list - you may need to "reply All" or similar
> in your mail software - others will be able to explain better than I can, and
> possibly more quickly too.  Also, others searching the list in the future may
> benefit from the thread too!
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
>
>
>
>> On 14-Sep-2015 7:39 PM, Maf. King wrote:
>>> On Mon 14 September 15 19:32:27 Hossain wrote:
>>>> I m confused abt the Invoice. After an invoice is made, how wud I pay
>>>> the invoice?
>>>> There's two ways to pay, as I find. 1. To pay directly to Accounts
>>>> Receivable a/c or
>>>> Post the invoice . Whats the difference ? After I find an invoice (made
>>>> before), it gives me
>>>> two options - POST and Process Payment, which one shud I use ? If I use
>>>> Process Payment
>>>> I get a red signal in Assets:Accounts Receivable , why ? If I use post,
>>>> it says "Invalid Entry:U need to
>>>> supply an account in the right currency for this position, this account
>>>> shud usually be of type income"
>>>> What does it mean ?
>>> Hi Hossain,
>>>
>>> Welcome to Gnucash.
>>>
>>> You should post the invoice.  You should not make transactions manually in
>>> A/R (or A/P).
>>>
>>> So the work flow is:
>>> Create invoice.  Post Invoice.  Process Payment.
>>>
>>>   From the message that you paraphrase above, it sounds to me that you
>>>   might not>
>>> have the same currency for the customer, the invoice and the A/R account.
>>> But I don't use multi-currency, so that is just a guess.
>>>
>>>
>>> HTH.
>>> Maf.
>>>
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