[GNC] Ideas and recommendations for community project

[Adrien Monteleone]

I'm not sure about what you are looking for exactly, but based on what 
you've given us so far, I can see a possible approach of adding your 
members as 'customers' and issuing an 'invoice' to them for 'shares'. 
You can then obtain a Customer Report which is essentially a Statement 
of Account. There is an option to turn on linked document detail so you 
can see which payments applied to which invoices.

As for tracking their level of equity, that's a whole other ball of wax. 
While the invoicing system might allow you to include equity accounts, I 
don't know of a way to restrict this on a 'cash basis', that is, their 
equity isn't what they've promised to pay, but what they've actually 
paid. (The Business Features are designed for Accrual Accounting)

I suspect if that is your need, you'd skip the invoicing/customer system 
(Business Features) and just do your transactions manually.

You'd need AR sub-accounts for each member most likely.

And as others have noted, once you figure out how to do what you need 
via pen and paper, we can better assist with doing the same with GnuCash 
if you can't manage to see the solution right-off.

Regards,
Adrien

On 8/1/23 1:26 AM, gibelium at gmx.net wrote:
> And yet, apart from that, it would already help me a lot if there was an
> idea how I could promptly and internally (i.e. without all tax aspects
> and legal requirements) map the (partial) payments of members and their
> shares in the overall project, because the other tasks will take up
> quite a bit of time, I fear.