[GNC] Can't assign payment to multiple invoices

[Wm]

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.

-- 
Wm