[GNC] Can't assign payment to multiple invoices

[Wail Yahyaoui]

I wanted to clean the unpaid invoice list. What do you mean by "tidy it 
up occasionally"?

On 31/10/2018 16:43, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
> On 27/10/2018 19:24, wail wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a list of invoices and a list of payments and I'm trying to 
>> assign
>> payments to invoices (I'm using Gnucash 3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10).
>> The problem is that my client pays sums that are not related to 
>> invoices,
>> e.g. invoices would be $4 $5 $3 $6 while payments would be $2 $6 $2 
>> $3 $5.
>> So I need to assign a payment to two or three invoices.
>> I just want to assign each payment to the oldest unpaid invoice(s).
>>
>> I was able to add a few payments to multiple invoices then it stopped
>> working, that is, if I select two payments in the "Process payment" 
>> window
>> and click ok, then only the last selected invoice will receive the 
>> payment.
>> If I edit the payment again, only one invoice is selected.
>>
>> That may be unrelated but sometimes the right click menu on a 
>> transaction
>> shows "edit payment" and sometimes it shows "assign as payment" instead
>> (typically after I edit the payment once and it gets split).
>> Also, in the "Process payment" window, when there are multiple 
>> invoices for
>> a given date, the list of invoices does not always appear in order of
>> invoices number. The list is ordered by Date but it would be better 
>> if it
>> could be ordered by invoice number in a given date.
>
> If the payments really are unrelated to the invoices use the old 
> fashioned payment on account method, i.e. reduce the balance on the 
> Liability and tidy it up occasionally.
>