Processing payments?

John Whitmore arigead at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 16:24:25 EDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 09:57:51PM +0100, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2016 14:29:15 John Whitmore wrote:
> > GnuCash has gotten itself confused and it's now confusing me. Actually
> > it didn't really confuse itself it must really have been me that
> > confused it.
> > 
> > So I'm running a business and just tried to process a payment in
> > GnuCash. I got offered the outstanding invoices and that's where I'm
> > confused. I'm only starting out so the numbers are low here.
> > Invoice-01 has been paid in full but the process payment window still
> > offers me that invoice. It's best I recreate the window's contents.
> > I'm running a plain text mail client so indentation will be out.
> > 
> > Date      Number        Type        Debit     Credit
> > 07/12/15  Invoice-001   Invoice     1,000
> > 24/12/15                Pre-Payment           1,000
> > 
> > The problem is that the payment on the 24/12/15 was for Invoice-001
> > and I've looked at it and it's marked as being for that invoice but
> > for some reason it's marked as "Pre-Payment" I've no idea where I put
> > that but can't seem to edit it at all.
> 
> This happens when you unpost an invoice that has payments attached to it. The payment will 
> be marked as pre-payment and will stay so even after you repost the invoice.
> 
> > 
> > Anybody know how to I change that to get these two resolved?
> 
> Easy:
> Select both at once in the payment window. The amount fields will turn to 0. Hit ok. That will 
> reassociate the payment with the invoice.
> 

Easy as. Thanks a million for your help.

> Regards,
> 
> Geert


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