[GNC] Payment paid which Bill? How to see which check paid which bill?

[Adrien Monteleone]

Not certain, but I’d steer clear of whatever you’re using as an account separator just for good measure. (by default, this is a colon) I’d also avoid slashes, and commas for exporting and processing purposes, but if you don’t do any of that, they are likely fine. (commas of course separate values in CSV files, and slashes are used by operating systems in file paths and as escape sequences. Unless you’ve tested a particular character and know it won’t cause an issue, better to avoid it.) Within GnuCash itself, I don’t think there is any issue or restriction. The only concern would be with exported data.

Anything else should work. Note that GnuCash won’t sort non-numbers, so the first non-number it encounters, sorting will stop. This may or may not be of any consequence to you.

Regards,
Adrien


> On Feb 10, 2020 w7d41, at 4:37 PM, Fran_3 <mailbox0600 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Adrien! I'll give the experimental report a test run. I also like your technique of putting the vendors bill@ in the notes/memos.
> 
> One untested idea I came up with was to enter the check number in the Payment "Num" field followed by a space & then the vendors bill/invoice id# all in the num field like for check number 1423 and vendor bill number 08279 I would enter...
> 1432 08279
> or maybe put a colon after the ck num.
> Wonder if that will break something in one of the reports or else where?