[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 237, Issue 113

[Fross, Michael]

Hi Chris,

I, too, enter the receipts immediately.  If I buy something online, it's
actually exactly the same time as the purchase.  If it's a real store, it
gets entered once I'm home.  Having it default to "today" is the right
answer for me.

Michael

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 5:23 PM Chris Skudder <cskudder at earthlink.net>
wrote:

>    FWIW, I'm another who enters most txn's on the same day I make them.
>    IMHO, one of the great and beautiful advantages of GnuCash over
>    Quickbooks Online (which I must use to do our church's accounts) - is
>    that GC opens basically instantaneously. There's no network latency, no
>    login, no "let's make sure it's really you" and "let's verify your cell
>    number," no clicking thru "Don't you want to sign up for our payroll
>    service, and our credit card processing service" and Lord knows what
>    else, before I can do what "I" want to do, versus what Intuit wants me
>    to do.
>    For me, I can open the computer from standby, open GnuCash, enter the
>    txn, and stash the receipt "off the deck" somewhere, quite a bit faster
>    than try to find receipts later, find time, remember what they're for,
>    + etc.
>    Realizing everybody's different ... but my own 1 vote is to keep the
>    date default "today", or at least to give a user the OPTION to default
>    txn dates to today.
>    So hooray for open source software, and for the talented and dedicated
>    peep's who do the coding that I don't know how to do.
>    Thank you to you all.
>    Chris
>      __________________________________________________________________
>
>    From: [1]gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org
>    Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2022, 12:00 PM
>    To: [2]gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>    Subject: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 237, Issue 113
>
> On 12/28/2022 11:11 AM, R Losey wrote:
>
> That would be an interesting poll (about when one enters data)
>
> References
>
>    1. mailto:gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org
>    2. mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org
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