[GNC] Manually edit pmt info (reverse a payment) for a vendor?

Eric Chapman gnucashlist at etchapman.com
Thu Mar 2 13:07:37 EST 2023


I think I have a plan: I will just start the whole year over. I only had 
a few transactions entered, so I'll copy the chart of accounts to a new 
file and start anew. :)

On 3/2/23 12:36, Eric Chapman wrote:
> I'm just getting started entering in 2022 data. I made some mistakes 
> in using Accounts Payable and Credit Cards. The amounts in those 
> accounts are accurate, but only because I deleted erroneously posted 
> transactions. However, I have two vendors which show "prepayment" 
> amounts when I do a vendor report.
>
> Is there a way to manually change that data?
>
> Since I only have one transaction entered for each of those vendors, 
> and I'm just getting started, I would not be opposed to just deleting 
> those vendors and their associated bills (invoices) and starting over 
> (now that I better understand how AP and Credit Cards work. Is it 
> possible to delete all transactions related to a vendor and then 
> delete the vendor? How?
>
> Or maybe I could somehow enter in a "debit memo" for the vendor (i.e., 
> another bill) that would zero out the amount now listed as prepayment. 
> But then how would I "pay" it such that the prepayment is applied to it?
>
> Thank you for helping me correct my newbie errors!
>
-- 
Eric Chapman
GnuCash 4.13 on MacOS 13.1 Ventura running on 2018 Mac Mini (3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7)



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