[GNC] How Jobs Work ( was Re: Business Account Set Up Question & Customer Billing Question)

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Wed Aug 22 12:22:16 EDT 2018


Yes, thank you Derek,

I was describing it backwards.

A single invoice can have only one job and a single job can’t be used with multiple vendors. (or multiple customers, but I would think that to be a very rare case)

So in addition to the first case, there is also the limitation that you also can’t buy supplies from multiple vendors on the same job.

Or did I confuse that as well?

The other part I never could understand was not being able to use the same ‘job’ for both a customer and a vendor. So even following the above limitations, I can’t use a job on a vendor bill to rebill a customer AND assign that job on the customer’s invoice?

I’m also not quite understanding your last caveat. So the Job is then not an extra layer of info, but replaces the Vendor/Customer? I think I’m truly lost now on the feature and its purpose.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 22, 2018, at 9:59 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> writes:
> 
>> There is a ‘jobs’ feature in GnuCash, but it is very limited at the
>> moment. Each vendor can have only one job. So if you buy ‘parts’ or
>> multiple items on the same invoice from a single vendor and then in
>> some fashion, direct, recombined, or further process or manufacture,
>> you can’t tie that job to multiple clients.
> 
> Just to clarify -- I think you have this backwards a bit.  A Customer
> (or Vendor) can have multiple jobs associated with them.  On the other
> hand, a Job can only have one Customer or Vendor that owns the job.
> Moreover, an Invoice or Bill can only have one "owner" (which can be a
> Customer/Vendor or a Job).
> 
> So yes, if you buy parts or multiple items on one bill from a single
> vendor, that can only be applied to a single job.
> 
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