Scheduled Bills - No Number

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

keithwjones <keith at worlebury.co.uk> writes:

> I was a long time Quicken XG 2004 user but in Win 10 it would not add new
> vendors. So the time was right for a change.
>
> I had GnuCash in my sights for sometime so started to use it - 2.6.18.
> Always helps to read manual before you start, all up and runnning smooothly.
> I was manually adding bills and paying them and issuing invoices. 
>
> Thought I would try scheduled transactions, never did in Quicken. First
> attempt I had a payment but no bill. So I created two entries a bill and a
> payment. This appears to work fine with entries in AP, general ledger, money
> taken from bank account and an entry in expenses. Do I need two separate
> entries?
>
> Entering each one manually I get a bill number from the system but when I do
> it by schedule no bill number is created. Am I missing something or is this
> how the sytem works? 

You cannot schedule bills or invoices.  When you try what happens is
that is gets based on the original transaction but misses all the
Bill/Invoice metadata that gets created through the Business features.

Doing it this way will also cause the business reports to fail, because
the metadata will be missing.

> I am impressed with the way GnuCash works, thank you to all those involved. 
>
> Keith 

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-derek

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