[GNC] more integrated lots features

[Christopher Lam]

This use of lots sounds harmless and unlikely to break anything. You can
find a handy Lot Viewer report in the Experimental reports, only visible by
running GnuCash with --extra cli option.

On Tue, 12 July 2022, 1:29 am Mattia Rizzolo, <mattia at mapreri.org> wrote:

> Hi people!
>
> Recently I've been noticing and using the "lots" feature a bit more,
> and I'm finding it quite handy after all.
>
>
> For example, as a FOSS contributor I find myself attending some events
> and being sponsored for it, or have some expenses on behalf of projects
> (say, I could buy promotional items (stickers, shirts, etc)) and later
> be reimbursed for them.
>
> In those cases I don't really want to use an invoice (in which case I
> could record a bill for the expense and "charge" it toward a given
> client), as I'm not actually invoicing any clients and I don't really
> want to have invoices in gnucash that don't actually exist also by the
> national revenue agency
>
> So, I created an account Assets:AR:ToBeReimbursed where I charge all the
> expenses that I plan to ask reimbursement for.  In that account I create
> a lot for each reimbursement request collecting all related expenses (for
> example, all expenses that I incur while going attending and coming back
> from an event) and a final transaction crediting this account and
> debiting a different AR account when sending off the actual
> reimbursement ticket to whatever organization.  The goal is that making
> sure that the lot is zero-ed out.
>
>
> Now, I suspect I could create a new account for each event (or whatever
> I have to do), but I found that this "lots" feature makes more sense in
> my mind, as its own goal is exactly to link together related expenses.
>
>
> So, concluding: I'm not sure if I'm doing justice to the feature by
> using it this way, but if I am, I can likely find more uses for it.  As
> such, I wonder if any of the developers have any further plan for it?  I
> don't really have any particular UX/UI in mind, besides some kind of
> sign (colour?) in the transaction ledger that highlight how a particular
> transaction is related to another.  Perhaps with some extra report also
> highlighting them?
>
> --
> regards,
>                         Mattia Rizzolo
>
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