How to Process Payment after import of bank transactions

[John]

This is the answer I was after! Thank you so much.

When in the register view of the bank account
either:
- highlight the transaction and go to Edit > Assign as payment...
or:
- highlight the transaction and right-hand click for pop-up menu (OS
Windows) > last option listed is Assign as payment...

Depending on whether the highlighted transaction is a payment or receipt
will depend on whether you can select a Vendor or Customer.

This is not included in the Help > Tutorial and Concepts Guide, but is noted
in the Help > Contents > Account Register/General Journal page
Go down to Account Register - Edit Menu , Table 4.12. Account Register -
Edit Menu - Access to file and account editing operations and preferences.

Note this means a clearing account is not required, for assigning payments /
receipts, as previously suggested as a work around.

Many thanks,
John


-----Original Message----- 
From: R. Victor Klassen
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 11:52 AM
To: John
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: How to Process Payment after import of bank transactions

I’ve never processed payments after importing bank transactions, however I
have processed payments after they’ve been entered in other ways.
In register view, with the transaction selected, I go to the transaction
menu, and part way down is “assign payment” or some similar wording.

Select that, and you get to select the customer, and then the customer’s
invoices will show up, and you can select which invoice or invoices to
associate the payment with.

Also works for payments you made, only select a vendor.

Not sure whether this is what you seek, but it hasn’t been mentioned.

On May 9, 2016, at 7:52 AM, John <hoppejrjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Keith for his suggestion / work around for using a clearing
> account.
> This means the original import data is retained and ensures no deletions
> are required, which is open to errors.
> However this is still not ideal and I would like to submit a development
> request if possible, assuming it is not possible to post directly from the
> imported transaction.
>
> Many thanks,
> John