[GNC] New User, First Invoice...Cue Weird Music!

[Christopher Lam]

Isn't the second X in the first line a mistake? Click to disable (stands
for "tax included in amount")

On 13 June 2018 at 21:35, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I'm a brand-new GnuCash user and I set up a chart of accounts and used
> it to draw up an invoice for my first customer. All good so far. Then, a
> couple of days later, when I went to check something...the first (and
> biggest) line item had completely disappeared from the invoice in
> Gnucash; the total for the invoice had dropped from $672 to $223
> although the reminder said that Accounts Receivable was still expecting
> $672. Well, I went in to edit the invoice to restore the first line
> item...and now it can't seem to do math. 1381.43 feet of movie film
> scanning at thirty cents a foot comes out to $414.43, as was correctly
> shown on the original invoice and as anyone can confirm with a
> calculator...yet Gnucash now says that the total for that line item is
> $382.84! I've tried deleting it and re-entering it a couple of times,
> and it still can't do math. I've double-checked to make sure that no
> hidden discounts are being applied. See attached screenshot of the
> current Gnucash entry superimposed over the original (PDF) Gnucash invoice.
>
> The lady has paid me (from the original invoice), by the way, and I'd
> like to register her payment correctly. This is very frustrating and I
> would appreciate guidance. Thanks!
>
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