Deposit through customer

[S. Sliackus]

I am sorry for not doing that (cc), I will from now.

May be I will give it a try, you may never know where it may take you.


On 30/08/16 14:46, Katie Eldridge wrote:
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> Of course, it is up to you what to use, but I suggest trying invoices 
> before totally rejecting GnuCash: setting up receipts so they appear 
> as you want them takes a bit of time, but you don't need to do that.  
> Just using the 'invoice' function would add a few seconds at most for 
> processing, and certainly take far less time than any form of manual 
> book-keeping.
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> GnuCash is much quicker than the dedicated charity accounting package 
> my husband was forced to used for a church treasurer role, and the 
> level of extra effort is minimal for the extra information you gain 
> for reporting and oversight.
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> regards,
>
> Katie
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> On 30/08/16 12:35, S. Sliackus wrote:
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>> Katie, thank you for yout answer. From this point I see that GnuCash  
>> is not suited for my purposes. I cannot use sub-accounts, as I use 
>> them already to split donated amounts among various projects (we have 
>> a lot of them). Rising invoices and paying them means additional time 
>> for processing - software should save time not double it, so it is 
>> not intended for that purpose and I cannot give a try for that.
>> I am sorry for being strict, but I need to be precise with that.
>> Thank you for your time and answer!
>>
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>> On 30 Aug 2016 12:22, "Katie Eldridge via gnucash-user" 
>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> wrote:
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>>     Hi Saulius,
>>
>>     There is more than one way of doing this.  I'm assuming you will
>>     probably have an income account called 'donations'.  You could
>>     then have an income sub-account for each of your donors, with
>>     donations as the 'parent account'.  This will mean that you can
>>     still get a total for 'donations', but can also have a total for
>>     each donor.
>>
>>     Another option would be to use the invoice processes even though
>>     you are not giving out invoices.  For this each donor would be a
>>     'customer', you would write a 'new invoice' for each donation,
>>     then post it and immediately process payment (you wouldn't need
>>     to actually print out an 'invoice').  If you do this way it would
>>     give you an option to make a printed receipt, although this would
>>     need you to edit the invoice report so a bit more complex.
>>
>>     hope that helps,
>>
>>     Katie
>>
>>
>>     On 29/08/16 21:08, S. Sliackus wrote:
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>>         Hello,
>>         I am new to GnuCash, so sorry for irrelevant questions if it
>>         happens.
>>         How Can I retain Customers name when depositing money? I have
>>         a situation when there is no sales process - no invoices, no
>>         payables, receivables. I do charity accounts and we collect
>>         donations (so there is no sales process, money is deposited
>>         directly to bank account), but when I deposit donated money
>>         to bank, I only able to have donors (aka Customers) name in
>>         Description, what means that I cannot make reports on how
>>         much which donors donated over time.
>>         Any solutions to that?
>>         Thanks
>>         Saulius
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