help with invoice posting

[Maf. King]

Hi Wendell,

Is the account type of your A/R correct?

>From the "accounts tree" view, right click on the A/R account - bottom left 
corner of the dialogue box, the "account type" should be set to A/Receivable. 

Also, you could check that the Customer, Invoice and A/R account currency are 
all the same 

HTH,
Maf.



On Monday, 4 April 2016 03:27:25 BST Wendell wrote:
> 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
> 
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