help with invoice posting

[Wendell]

Thanks for responding.
I am using Ubuntu for an operating system. I forgot to say that.
These are customer invoices. I have to preface what I am saying by 
telling you that I have used quick books and Peachtree in the past, but 
neither will run on Linux.
I can't seem to get past the most simple tasks in Gnu cash though.
As far as I can see, I have all of the necessary accounts set up. I 
haven’t tried to get fancy with it. I wanted to get it set up and 
functional to start entering historical data to be able to present a set 
of books. I am definitely not an accountant.

I should be able to post an invoice to Income:sales and Assets:A/R 
however the Post to account is greyed out and nothing can be entered. 
Something very basic is wrong and I can't put a finger on it.

Wendell

On 04/03/2016 12:55 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
> On Sunday 03 April 2016 12:33:39 Wendell wrote:
>
> > I am not able to post an invoice because the post window does not have
>
> > a post to selection. I wonder if my account setup is wrong
>
> >
>
> > Wendell
>
> That depends.
>
> If this a customer invoice ? In that case your chart of accounts needs 
> to have one account of type "Accounts Receivable" (A/Receivable in 
> short) in the same currency as the invoice.
>
> For a vendor bill, you would need one account of type "Accounts Payable".
>
> If you never created such accounts or didn't select the business 
> accounts in the account hierarchy setup assistant, those will be 
> missing. You can add one directly from the post to window if I 
> remember correctly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>