[GNC] Posting a bad debt

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Tue Apr 9 17:05:14 EDT 2019


I tested it, you can’t select expense accounts on credit memo line items either.

It looks like the only method is what I outlined earlier, ‘pay’ with some other asset account, then transfer that amount to Expenses:Bad Debts.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 9, 2019, at 3:21 PM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In similar fashion, a favorite customer shorted me $0.50 on a timely big
> invoice payment.  Rather than hassle them about $0.50, I created another
> invoice, but as I was creating the invoice I selected credit memo instead
> of invoice.  I made a credit memo for $0.50 for that customer and job.
> Then I opened the invoice that was $0.50 short and went to pay that
> invoice.  The invoice with the $0.50 due appears as well as the credit memo
> for $0.50.  I selected them both and finished the payment.
> 
> If you went this way, perhaps you could set the account for the source of
> the credit memo to an appropriate expense account?  I'm just a beginner, so
> what I've done may not be allowed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Greg Feneis
> 




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