[GNC] Uploading Invoices

[Adrien Monteleone]

I don’t see any reason you can’t use the same invoice number rather than having to maintain two numbering systems. GnuCash lets you make up just about any numbering scheme you want, so certainly, you use the same original number from the external system.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 12:02 PM, Justin Haynes <justin at justinhaynes.com> wrote:
> 
> Oh, also, have you looked in File -> Properties?  Notice under book options
> in "Business" and "Counters".  In Counters, those are for internal
> numbering, but there is also a field in invoices
> 
> 
> And one more thing - if the external invoicing system has its own invoice
> numbers, you should be able to import those as the "Billing ID".  That's
> separate from GNUCash's internal InvoicID.  So for example, if you don't
> have any invoices, and you manually created a new customer and created a
> new invoice, you could rely on GNUCash to autonumber teh invoice, and you
> can fill in the external invoice systems id as "Billing ID" Like I show
> here.  I would think importing works the same but I have not tested it
> becaus I don't use an external invoicing system.
>