[GNC] Data Entry Overload - Create Bill + Post Bill + Pay Bill vs just Pay Bill?

Fran_3 mailbox0600 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 9 19:17:56 EDT 2020


 So Greg, you don't post any Bills to Accounts Payable? Electric & Utility bills. Rent or whatever?
You just post the payments... is that what you are saying?
Thanks

    On Friday, October 9, 2020, 12:15:25 PM EDT, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 I don't use this process at all. Everything my business buys how on a
credit card. 🤷

Kind regards, Greg Feneis
(Pixel 3)


On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 08:41 Fran_3 via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
wrote:

> Posting Bills allows you to keep track of AP and provides data to the
> Bills Due Reminder...
> However some routine expenses may just get paid without going through the
> steps of creating and posting and paying a bill.
> For a small venture posting bills can require a lot of keyboard time...
> even duplicating a bill requires a number of steps, data entry, and clicks
> and can eat up time if you have a bunch of them to do...
> Example, we have a couple of vendor from which we get 50+ to 100+ charges
> per year. They each are on auto pay and are mostly for the same amount per
> charge... but each charge is for a different thing... so descriptions, due
> dates, etc are different for each item.
> (You can think of these as if they were an annual listing or service
> fee... one for each item.)
> I got reminded of this recently when we made an effort to enter/create
> Bills for the 100+ charges that were going to occur for Vendor-A over the
> next 12 months... again, the big corporate vendor does not supply a monthly
> Bill listing all charges for that month... the item fee comes up and gets
> auto paid... so 100+ transactions per year for that one vendor.
>
> It is a lot less work to just enter each payment into the system as
> opposed to first creating a bill then posting a bill and then paying the
> bill.
> How do you all choose which things to create Bills for and which things
> just Pay?
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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