[GNC] A How-to question for new user of GNUCash

[Geoff]

Hi Chris

Welcome to the wonderful, and sometimes perplexing, world of GnuCash!

As receipt printing is not "out of the box" functionality, you will need 
to explore some workarounds, which will in turn depend on how you have 
set up your membership data in GnuCash.

Have you explored the Accounts Receivable functionality?  You mentioned 
it is a "very small" organisation, so even though there are a few steps 
involved you might find it manageable.  Under the Business / Customers 
menu you could:
(1) Set up each member as a Customer
(2) Raise an Invoice for their fees
(3) "Post" that Invoice to generate the accounting records
(4) Record a Payment against the Invoice when they pay
(5) Generate a Customer Report for the member and print it (see attached 
PDF)

An alternative to (4) is to import the payments via a bank statement, 
then use the "Assign as Payment" function from the bank account 
transaction (right mouse click on the transaction) to apply the payment 
transaction to the corresponding Invoice.

More details here and via Google:
https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=guide


ALTERNATIVELY if the above is too much rigmarole and you don't want to 
run a debtors ledger, you could use the "Account Report - Single 
Transaction" option to generate a report directly from the bank account 
ledger as you record each transaction (see attached screenshot).


Hope this helps.

Regards

Geoff
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On 23/11/2021 12:01 pm, Chris Trueman wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I've just installed GNUCash to use instead of Quickbooks. Their
> intransigence about not being able to verify an installation of QuickBooks
> 2010 on a different computer when the old one has crashed has forced me to
> move.
> 
> I use Quickbooks to do the accounts for a very small not-for-profit
> community organisation in suburban Melbourne, Australia.
> 
> With Quickbooks I could print a receipt when members paid their annual
> membership fees.
> 
> I can't see a way to print a receipt with GNUCash.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Chris Trueman
> 
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