[GNC] Directly posting payments

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Jim,

You only need to create an invoice where you are extending credit to a vendor -
i.e. time to pay. if the item is a cash purchase you could simply open a
transaction from the appropriate asset account register and credit the amount of
the purchase to the appropriate asset bank account and debit the amount to the
appropriate expense account as long as you have no need to track the purchase
back to a specific vendor as this is really only available using the business
features which include the customer/vendor and invoice/bill features amongst a
few others. By including vendor specific information in the transaction
description field there are some features which allow filtering in reports.
There has been some considerable recent discussion on the mailing list about
these features some aspects of which are still under development.

David Cousens

On Mon, 2022-02-21 at 17:10 -0500, jim at paradisepro.com wrote:
> I am a newbie on GnuCash, currently running it side-by-side with my previous
> software which I can't install on Win10 without a very expensive upgrade
> [currently logging into my old Win7 machine using Remote Desktop but old
> machine is becoming unreliable].
> 
> In my old software, I could directly post incidental payments without first
> creating an invoice. In GnuCash, it appears I need to create an invoice prior
> to posting a payment. For a simple transaction like a store or restaurant
> purchase, this seems somewhat cumbersome.
> 
> I can create the transaction directly in the General Journal; however, then I
> don't have a vendor summary.
> 
> What am I overlooking?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim
> 
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