[GNC] How to handle bounced check

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 5 februari 2019 00:18:47 CET schreef Mike Alexander:
> > On Feb 4, 2019, at 4:32 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Back to the original question: I think gnucash will try its best to keep
> > you from adding a reverse payment to an already paid invoice. So what you
> > did via manual lot manipulation is probably the closest you can get to
> > that outcome.
> > 
> > There is however yet another way to see this: if the check bounced it
> > didn't really pay for the invoice to start with.
> > 
> > So you could decouple the payment from the invoice (the easiest way is by
> > unposting and reposting the invoice). Then presuming you want to keep
> > record of the fact that you received a check, you can keep the payment
> > around and directly credit it via the Process Payment dialog to indicate
> > it bounced. That is, you can select the payment only in that dialog and
> > have gnucash "pay" for that payment, which is to say gnucash would refund
> > that payment.
> 
> Thanks for all the help, I learned a number of things.  What I ended up
> doing is use the “Add Reversing Transaction” command on the payment. 
> Somewhat to my surprise this did pretty much what I wanted to do.  It added
> a “reversed by” slot to the payment transaction and decoupled it from the
> invoice.  This left the invoice unpaid.
Interesting. I didn't know "Add Reversing Transaction" had any effect on the 
business properties of a transaction.

Geert