[GNC] barcode & invoices

[Adrien Monteleone]

For a QR, I would think not, but it might be possible to generate a 
printable traditional bar code (using a bar code font) that changes with 
each invoice. What exactly it needs to encode is still the first question.

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/15/20 3:53 PM, David Cousens wrote:
> Gour,
> 
> Presumably either the tax office assigns the QR  barcode or this done by the
> user from a set of QR codes assigned to the user by the tax office or the QR
> code encodes certain specific information from the invoice ( and or the
> business) and can be generated when the invoice is created. The details of
> how this is done will be important for any implementation. The other problem
> is where implementation of such features and the requirements are different
> in different countries and how GC copes with that.
> 
> There is already a facility to associate an external file, which could be a
> png of the QR barcode for a particular transaction. I think that will work
> with business transactions. Getting GC to print a QR barcode onto an invoice
> may be a bit more problematical.
> 
> See
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/pt/gnucash-guide/bus-ar-invoicechange.html
> for current  invoice customisation. At present there is no facility for
> adding an image which changes with the invoice number and is indexed by that
> number.