[GNC] Should one use Accounts Payable if a vendor is paid immediately ?

[Maf. King]

On Monday, 28 November 2022 11:19:56 GMT Stan Brown wrote:
> On 2022-11-27 19:37, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> > Personally, I use the Description field for *all* of my transactions as
> > a Payor/Payee line. Actual descriptive info I put in the Notes and/or
> > Memo fields.
> > 
> > In that case, I can simply run a Transaction Report filtered on the name
> > of the Payor/Payee and see the desired activity.
> 
> The trouble with that is that the text fields aren't validated. It's
> fine if you never, ever, make a typo; but I'm not perfect. If I make a
> typo in an account name, I know it immediately and can fix it. But if I
> mistype "Some Vendor" as "SomeVendor" or "Some Vendoir" I may not
> notice, and then any report that filters on Description will be incomplete.
> 

I'd respectfully suggest that Autofill is your friend here; Typos in the Payee  
should be fairly hard (but not impossible; your point is certainly taken!) to 
get into place, once you are on more than one txn to any given vendor.

0.02
Maf.