invoice payment and bank fees

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Wed, February 15, 2017 11:35 am, iulian dragos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What's the best way to deal with a payment for an invoice that is short by
> the "bank fee" charge? Say, I have an invoice for $100. I receive a
> payment
> of $95 for that invoice, because the bank charges $5 for international
> transfers.
>
> I manually split the transaction and increased the section that goes to
> A/R
> to $100, and added a new entry with $5 for the Bank Charges account. Is
> that the Gnucash way?

Yes.  I would process payment for the full $100 into Checking, and then
manually split it so that it's $100 into A/P, $95 into Checking, and $5
into Expenses:Bank Fees.

> thanks,
> iulian

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-derek
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