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

[Greg Feneis]

Yes, but keep in mind that I don't purchase anything for resale.

Kind regards, Greg Feneis
(Pixel 3)


On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 16:17 Fran_3 <mailbox0600 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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