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

[Bat]

Yop,

I think that your answer needs some precisions from my side. I do it
here under.

Thank you,

🦇 ~^v^~

On 11/09/2019 19:09, 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.

No sure of that, I’ve done dome digging before posting, to see if it was
already answered.

At least :

http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Re-1-Bank-Entry-Multiple-Invoices-Customers-td4680560.html

http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Advance-payment-for-multiple-invoices-for-multiple-accounts-td4671817.html

http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/One-payment-for-several-invoices-td4662302.html

>> 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?

Easy :

1. we do not accept cash payment, so some customer exchange cash with a
friend that is then paying for him plus its own bill

2. relatives that pay together (father and son, people living together, …)

3. diverse arrangement between customers …

>> 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?
>
>> 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.

Yes, but as linking payment and invoices is done at split level (rather
than transaction), this logic is an overkill regarding  gnucash internal
way of working.

Plus it adds burden and artificial accounts where it could be avoided.

>> Is – there a plan to allow selecting several customers invoices in
>> manage a payment GUI ?
> No.
>
>> Thanks
> -derek
>