Fwd: send one payment to 2 invoices with specific amount per invoice

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truly sneaky move .... thanks, that's a great, yet simple idea and will be
saving me a lot of trouble.

... in terms of feature request I'd say it would be a 'leap forward' being
able to assign splits to invoices freely though

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 September 2016 13:52:45 __ wrote:
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> > thanks @Dave and sorry, maybe I have not made myself clear enough. I
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> > am talking about 2 posted invoices and one payment which I intend to
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> > "assign as payment" to that specific invoices. I think the method you
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> > have described is just splitting one incoming transaction into 2
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> > splits on the other side.
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> > However As soon as you use the "assign as payment" function and choose
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> > the 2 related invoices GC takes the entire amount (no matter into how
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> > many splits you may have spitted it up to) and balances it against
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> > the older of those 2 invoices. Only if after that there is money left
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> > over the remaining will be posted against the newer invoice
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> > This provides correct numbers when you want to see what total amount a
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> > customer might still owe you, but does not support the usecase I am
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> > facing (and which I believe is not so unusual).
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> >
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> You can achieve this, by cheating a bit :)
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> Before assigning you payment to the two invoices, make a temporary payment
> to the oldest invoice for the amount you want to have *unpaid* in your end
> result.
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> Then use "Assign as payment" to assign your original payment to both
> invoices at once.
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> Lastly remove the temporary payment again.
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> Voila...
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> An example in numbers:
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> Invoice 1: 100€ of which 80€ to be paid
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> Invoice 2: 70€ of which 30€ to be paid
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> Payment : 110€
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> 1. Make a temporary payment of 100€ - 80€ = 20€ against invoice 1
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> 2. Assign the 110,- € payment to invoice 1 and 2. As invoice one only has
> 80€ open due to the temporary payment, 30€ will be assigned to invoice 2
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> 3. Remove the temporary payment (simply delete the payment transaction).
> Now invoice 1 will have 20€ unpaid again, or 80€ paid which is the state we
> wanted to achieve.
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> Regards,
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> Geert
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