1 Bank Entry - Multiple Invoices/Customers

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 19 September 2015 15:50:11 Dorel Ciornei wrote:
> First, I don't understand how several checks would show on your bank
> statement as a total only. If my bank did that, it wouldn't be my
> bank for long.
> But, I believe you could enter a split transaction that would show on
> one side the total taken out from your checking, and then on the
> other side would split to each bill you paid.  I do this frequently
> when I buy in one transaction more than one item but they go in
> different expense categories.In my opinion the best is to have in GNU
> Cash account exactly what shows in your bank statement.That way you
> don't have to remember what you did a few months later if you have to
> look back at the transactions. Cheers,Dorel
> 
You can enter a split transaction, but it wouldn't be recognized by the business features of 
gnucash as a payment for invoices.

>From your reply it looks to me you're not using this part...

The business features don't allow one payment for multiple different customers, only one 
payment for multiple invoices of one single customer.

If you want to keep the bank record strictly the same as your entries, you'll have to work in 
two steps as Nick suggested himself. The complexity of tracking what happened exactly then 
just shifts to another account.

As said, both options are possible. It's a matter of taste.

Regards,

Geert

> 
> 
>      On Saturday, September 19, 2015 1:38 AM, Geert Janssens
> <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>  On Friday 18 September 2015 15:59:30 nssimpson wrote:
> > Hi Everyone
> > 
> > So I paid in a few cheques for various different customers. On our
> > bank statement it simply shows the total of all the cheques paid in.
> > 
> > So what's the best way of assigning payment to several different
> > invoices from different customers? Should I create an account in
> > Gnucash where the value of the cheque goes in and then pay the bills
> > from there?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Nick
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> That would be one way to do it.
> 
> Alternatively you can also enter the payments directly to your bank
> account. They will show up as individual payments there instead of
> one check then. There's no rule that says the bank statement has to
> match your gnucash records line by line. As long as the balances and
> totals match up you're good.
> 
> In the end it mostly boils down to how you wish to track your
> finances.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
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