Importing invoices needing currency conversion as "posted" has issue

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Yary,

Thanks for reporting this. I'm not sure multi-currency invoices were considered when 
importing invoices was introduced. Can you file this as a bug report in bugzilla please [1] ? A 
mention on the list will get lost after some time.

Thanks,

Geert

[1] Refer to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla to learn how to use bugzilla

On Tuesday 24 May 2016 15:01:59 yary wrote:
> I'm loading an invoice history to GnuCash 2.6.12, and have found a
> less-than-awesome handling of invoices with "foreign" customers if
> they are being imported as "posted" to accounts with "domestic"
> currencies. Here is an example imported invoice:
> 
> CINV-053,,CUS-01-GBP,,Sonia's Song-Paperback,1/2/2016,Sonia's
> Song-Paperback,,Income:Sales:Product
> Sales,2,12.41,,,,,,,1/2/2016,1/2/2016,Assets:Accounts
> Receivable:Accounts Receivable:A/R GBP-Trade,,yes
> 
> "CUS-01-GBP" is a customer who is invoiced in GBP (and, conceptually,
> who pays in GBP, even though it is converted to USD at the time of
> payment). My business & most of my accounts, such as the "Product
> Sales" account, are in USD.
> 
> The invoice imports with the correct fields, and an invoice report
> will show a posting date 1/2/2016. => But if I open the invoice in a
> tab, it shows as un-posted. Clicking "Post" asks for a currency
> conversion to USD, and I give it, and there's no error, and yet it
> doesn't post. <=
> 
> This is for a very small business that has some sales to international
> customers who are billed in their own currencies, thanks to the
> web-based marketplace it sells on.
> 
> I found two work-arounds: I can import as not-posted, and then post
> them manually (entering in conversion rates), and then it posts
> correctly. Or I can both create foreign-currency A/R and Sales
> sub-accounts, and import all invoices as "posted" to those correctly.
> Thus I don't need a "fix" for this, just wanted to report the
> apparent bug => importing invoices as "posted" that need currency
> conversion creates un-postable invoices.
> 
> -y
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