[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 228, Issue 46

[Eric H. Bowen]

On 3/23/22 10:32, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:


I'm afraid Chris's suggestion doesn't work. Whenever I try to edit the 
payment to cover the $136 penalty, it marks the main payment as 
"unpaid". I still haven't found the trick for 'splitting' a single 
payment to cover multiple invoices, although it seems that this should 
be a common scenario. I'm using Gnucash 3.8 Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) 
on Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS.

> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:17:35 +0800
> From: Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
> To: "Eric H. Bowen" <eric at ehbowen.net>
> Cc: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] How to apply overpayment to new invoice?
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> Find the prepayment in the AP or bank register, right click, edit payment,
> and use it to clear the later invoice.
>
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, 6:45 pm Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user, <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>> I was late with my property taxes this year and incurred a penalty. I
>> had earlier entered the billed amount as an invoice payable to the tax
>> collector. I finally got the funds together to pay the amount, including
>> penalty, in full. I entered it as one payment transaction, of course,
>> since it was one e-check, and now it's showing up in my "Accounts
>> Payable" as two transactions, one for the remaining billed amount (I had
>> made partial payments earlier), and a separate transaction for $136.63
>> representing the penalty and interest which appears as an unassigned
>> pre-payment.
>>
>> OK so far. Well, now that I know the total penalty I entered another
>> invoice for that amount. Fine. Now I want to pay the invoice with the
>> pre-payment. I go to the payment screen and the pre-payment shows up
>> there. But I can find no way to apply it to the new invoice. How do I
>> close this [expletive!] out?
>>
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