[GNC] Commission sales and business features

[Gyle McCollam]

I don't use Gnucash for business, so I don't know if you can or cannot expense commission on the invoice.  If you can't, you could create a liability account for commissions and create a monthly transaction to debit the liability and debit the commission expense account or on a more frequent basis, even sale by sale if required.  You could even have a placeholder account for commission with sub account for each salesperson if you wanted to track commissions by Salesman.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:14 PM
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Subject: [GNC] Commission sales and business features

We occasionally sell something through a third party acting in a broker role.  Which is to say the item is never the possession of the party who does the sale - or at least not owned by them.

When I do the invoice I do not know the actual customer so I create a pseudo customer as a stand-in.  I put in line items for everything sold and then I would like to have a item for commission which reduces the total amount owed.

Adding to the complexity is that commission is taxable,  while none of the other line items is.

Here’s the question:   The commission should be booked against cost of sales which is an expense.  Invoices don’t permit expenses, just assets, income and liabilities.

How do folks normally treat this?

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