[GNC] Autofill with Open Date?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> writes:

> On Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:25:15 BST Sensei Tim Rosanelli wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am using Gnucash for my business and love it but I have one question.
>> 
>> Most of my transaction are via credit card. That means that the invoice
>> open date, line item date, post date, due date, and payment date are all
>> the same. Gnucash autofills with todays date but I am usually entering
>> invoices a few day later.  Gnucash requires me to enter each date
>> individually which requires a huge amount of time.
>> 
>> Is there any way to automatically enter the post date, due date, and
>> payment? Or is there any way for these field to autofill with the open
>> date instead of today's date? This would save me hours of work each month.
>> 
>>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> I only use the business features for items that really are Accounts Payable, 
> where the bill will be paid some time after the date that is has been raised.
>
> For items that my business buys directly - by card or cash - I don't bother 
> with the whole create invoice - process payment and just use a credit card 
> register for those transactions.

Moreover, it sounds like Tim is using an A/R or A/P register directly.
Don't do that!  Those registers are not meant for Human Interaction --
transactions into those registers are generally only supposed to be
created by using the Business features (Invoice/Bill etc).

> 0.02
> Maf.

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-derek

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