[GNC] Transfer between receivable accounts

[Adrien Monteleone]

There's no direct method of transferring balances or payments between AR 
accounts. (sadly, but GnuCash is not unique in this regard)

Some type of intermediary account would be required. (likely, one that 
is a sub-account of AR so as not to disrupt the overall AR balance)

While not as 'clean' as a direct method, what do you find is 'clunky'?

What is your exact workflow?

Note, the intermediary account(s) might not touch AR directly unless you 
need them to. (indeed you might)

Another way to think of such payments is akin to someone purchasing a 
Gift Card for someone else.

How you'd handle *that* accounting should be similar to one AR account 
paying on another's behalf.

If strictly necessary, you may find it cleaner and easier (though more 
clicks) to 'sell' a Gift Certificate type 'line item' on an invoice to a 
Customer, and then Process Payment for it.

And all of the above with the usual caveat: "I am not an accountant and 
this is not professional advice."


Regards,
Adrien

On 1/3/23 7:38 PM, davidvernonlong at gmail.com wrote:
> I run the accounting for a member's club. Members are customers in the
> accounts receivables.
> 
> Sometime a member may pay the invoices of several other members in one cash
> payment.  For example, in family situations where father pays membership
> invoices of his children who are also members.
> 
> What I would like to do is to transfer the balances from the children's
> account in A/R to the father's account in A/R, and then process the total
> payment in the fathers A/R.
> 
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> 
> The only way I can find to do this is through intermediary accounts which I
> set up for that purpose. But it is rather clunky  and looks ugly om the
> individual accounts receivable at the transfer  transaction is entitled
> "refund" or "payment", as the only way I could find of making the transfer
> was though the process payment transaction .
> 
>   
> 
> Is there a more direct way of making a transfer between A/R accounts?