[GNC] Bill - Book Item lines to different Customers.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Mon, January 10, 2022 6:22 pm, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
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>
>
>> Exactly..  So you don't know how the features work.
> And that might actually be an advantage
>> GnuCash has a chargeback feature that allows you to select items from a
>> vendor bill and automatically charge them back to a customer.  Selected
>> line-items from the bill to auto-populate into the invoice(s) for that
>> customer (until you select them to apply to a specific invoice).
>>
>> This works great if there is a 1:1 mapping of vendor bill -> customer,
>> because you can only assign a SINGLE Customer to the Bill.
>
> Ah yes, but how did we get to this single bill? Where did this bill get
> separate lines?
>
> In other words, let's change this slightly. The farrier comes to my
> stable and shoes three horses, my horse and the horses of two of my
> customers << I am boarding horses >>. The farrier didn't give me an
> invoice with separate lines for horse a, horse b, and horse c. She gave
> me an invoice with a single line; shoed three horses, $X

That was not my reading from the OP -- my reading is that the farrier left
an invoice with three line items, one for horse A, one for B, and one for
C.

> In other words, it looks to me that what is described below comes from
> MY creating a bill with those separated into separate lines and I
> suppose the objection about what is lacking is the ability to do that
> rather than merging three separate bills.
>
> And the example we are working with is simple (I mean the invoice from
> the vendor). It could be far more complex, have "lines", but those not
> corresponding to a customer. Thus from the vendor an invoice for:
>
> 12 type A widgets @$10         $120
>
> 8  type B widgets   @$5             $40
>
> 3 type C widgets    @&17          $51
>
>                                                      ----------
>
>                                                      $211
>
> NOW --- of these, 4 of the type A widgets are to be charged back to
> customer #1 and 5 to customer #2 and 3 to inventory
>
>                                  6 of the type B widgets are to be
> charged back to customer #1 and 2 to customer #2
>
>                                  2 of the type C widgets are to be
> charged back to customer #1 and one to inventory
>
> So obviously I'd have to be doing the breaking up, into lines if not
> separate bills.. BUT don't I also want to wend up with something that
> bears some resemblance to what arrived? In other words, if this WERE
> done as three bills that were then merged into a "vendor job" what does
> that look like?

It looks like three vendor bills, one to "Ferrier Job <date>" with a
line-item of "Shod Horse A", one with a line-item of B, and one with a
line-item of C.  The only benefit of using a Job is to tie the bills
together by something *other* that the post date and the Ferrier vendor.

> Michael D Novack
>

-derek
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