[GNC] Assign one payment to multiple invoices (from several customers)

[Michael Hendry]

> On 5 Sep 2019, at 16:07, Bat <bateast+gnucash at bat.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> this is a subject that appears regularly on the mailing list, but I can not find fine answer neither plan to improve the situation.
> 
> Some of my customers often pay for their invoices plus for the one of other customer. So I get one payment (with one reference) to split to multiple invoices.
> 
> The distribution of one payment to several invoices is natural through business features if the invoices are for the same customer. But not if the invoices belong to several customers.
> 
> So today, I record the payment on the customer’s invoice, go into the AR account and verify the splits of the transaction, go into Action -> Lots to manually remove the other split from the customer payment lot and assign it to the other customer invoice lot.
> 
> Is – there a better way to do that ?
> 
> Is – there a plan to allow selecting several customers invoices in manage a payment GUI ?
> 
> Thanks


Isn't it possible to treat the single payment (for example, covering three invoices) as three separate payments, one for each invoice?

(I don’t use the business features, so can’t try this out).

Michael