[GNC] Assign one payment to multiple invoices (from several customers)
Fred Smith
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Wed Sep 11 16:26:17 EDT 2019
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 01:09:18PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bat <bateast+gnucash at bat.fr.eu.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Um, no, it does not appear regularly. Indeed, this is the first time in
> 19 years that someone has asked about paying invoices for multiple
> customers with a single payment.
>
> > 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.
>
> Color me confused, but why would one customer be paying invoices for
> another customer? Do you pay your neighbor's power bill as well as your
> own with one payment?
>
> > 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.
>
> Right. Why would a customer pay someone else's invoice?
Parent company paying utilities for its child companies?
>
> > 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 ?
>
> There is no way to split a single payment across customers, and I don't
> see that ever being supported. However, you can work around it by using
> a suspense account where you process payment for the different customers
> into the suspense account, and then manually transfer that suspense
> account to your bank.
>
> I'll note that this approach works for single payments for multiple
> customers, or even multiple payments for a single customer -- all of
> which get deposited together.
>
> > Is – there a plan to allow selecting several customers invoices in
> > manage a payment GUI ?
>
> No.
>
> > Thanks
>
> -derek
>
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