[GNC] Invoice emailing?

[Simon Roberts]

Ah well, that's a bit sad, but not the end of the world (my business
probably sends less than six invoices per month, often only one or two).

The fastest manual route certainly seems to be do use the print dialog, and
then copy/paste from the resulting screen (that gets you an HTML paste that
easily goes into most email senders). I toyed with print to file or export,
but it still seems easier to just copy/paste.

In a way, it's having to fill out the recipient and subject line that I'm
most sad about. Can't help feeling that if I knew the code base (well
there's a year of work 😂) I could probably code that up. Fingers crossed
perhaps someone else will choose to. Still, I'm not remotely tempted to go
back to Intuit over this!!!

Thanks for the input Adrien!
Cheers,
Simon


On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 4:59 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Not that I'm aware of.
>
> You could export or print to file for each invoice, then attach the
> resulting document.
>
> This is entirely a manual operation though.
>
> You may want to investigate gnucash-cli, but I don't know if the
> business features are exposed there.
>
> A third option may be to script your way through it, reading the data
> file directly outside of GnuCash.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 1/2/23 5:54 PM, Simon Roberts wrote:
> > We're getting to the point of preparing and sending invoices, and so far
> > things are seeming generally pretty clear, but I have one quick question.
> >
> > Is it possible to integrate directly with a desktop email client for
> > sending invoices? It's not a big problem to copy / paste the HTML image
> > from the print preview, but if there's something that prepares the
> > recipients and subject line and sets it up in a POP, SMTP, or IMAP client
> > program directly that would rock.
> >
> > I noted that when I set up the customer, GC allows me to provide an email
> > address, but I've not found anything in the documentation regarding
> sending
> > emails. As usual, of course, perhaps I don't have the right search term.
> Is
> > there such a thing?
>
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