[GNC] Credit Note to pay bill

[Smartner Finance]

That was awesome! Worked exactly as expected.
Thank you for your suggestion.

For anyone else trying this...
It kept bothering me that while the balance on the account was just
fine, the bill from the vendor continued to show as unpaid until I
processed payment for that bill using the credit note.

I ldo kept getting confused, wondering if making the payment would add
a transaction to the asset/liability account that I was using to make
payment to the vendor. I did not want the adjustment of a bill against
a credit note to show up on a credit card / checking account - that
would mess up my mind when trying to reconcile the account, even though
the effect of the two transactions would nullify each other.

When I used the Business > Vendor > Process Payment... menu option,
although it has an asset/liability account selected in the right bottom
panel, the transaction is only posted in the A/Payable with the Type =
"L" and Action = "Lot Link". I did find it peculiar that when I clicked
on the L, it disappeared and was replaced with an "I" [Invoice] or "P"
[Payment], and regardless of how many times I click, it never goes back
to an "L".

Regards,
Prince


On Sun, 2022-11-06 at 11:11 -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Yes.
> 
> Process Payment for that Vendor.
> 
> Select both the Jan bill and the credit note.
> 
> Set the date as desired.
> 
> Put any note you want.
> 
> Click 'OK' to commit the payment.
> 
> The credit note will offset the bill as a payment.
> 
> You can verify this with a Vendor Report for that vendor and use
> Options 
>  > Display Columns > Transactions Links > 'Simple' or 'Detailed'.
> 
> You can also do a Find Bill and limit the search to those which are 
> unpaid, or the reverse, those which are paid. The first will not show
> the Jan Bill or Credit Note, the latter will.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 11/6/22 9:42 AM, Smartner Finance wrote:
> > Here are 2 transactions...
> > 1. Bill from a vendor on 01 Jan 2022 for say $100
> > 2. Credit note from the same vendor on 02 Jan 2022 for $100
> > 
> > 
> > I continue to receive bills from the vendor each month and I
> > continue
> > to pay them off from a credit card.
> > 
> > Every time I open GNUCash, it showws the Bill and Credit Note from
> > 01
> > and 02 Jan 2022 in a Due Bills reminder window. How do I stop these
> > reminders from appearing for the Bill and the Credit Note.
> > 
> > Can the credit note be marked as payment again the bill?
> 
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