[GNC] How to set a customer "opening balance" for the Customer Report

[Adrien Monteleone]

How does one enter opening balances, *per customer* or *per vendor*?

So far that we’ve figured out, the only method is to enter a payment assigned to Equity:Opening Balances.

While this does accomplish the intended result, it is neither obvious or easily discoverable when first moving to GnuCash.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Oct 20, 2019 w43d293, at 6:23 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> writes:
> 
>> On 2019-10-16 12:10, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>>> Also, the Opening Balance entry *is* editable, even in 2.6.x. I’ve
>>> done it myself. It is just a regular transaction.
>> 
>> I believe you, but I must say that that was very far from obvious to
>> this new user. I couldn't understand why the Account dialog displayed an
>> opening balance but wouldn't let me correct it. So I ended up making all
>> my opening balance transactions myself, through General Ledger or one of
>> the account registers.
> 
> The O-B entry in a New Account window is just a syntactic sugar for
> creating a standard transaction between the account and Equity:Opening
> Balances.  So after the account exists, you can just edit it.
> 
> Creating that O-B txn by hand is effectively the same thing, just in a
> second step instead of in one step.  The end result is the same.
> 
> In short, there is nothing "special" about the O-B transaction created
> by the New Account dialog.
> 
> -derek