[GNC] The custom invoice problem

[Roland Giesler]

Hi all,

Since 2016 (and probably before that), there are have been questions 
about the lack of reasonably accessible tools for small business users 
to create invoices that contain the company logo and a customised layout 
for a particular setting.

https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2016-June/065750.html
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2022-January/099232.html

I sure there are many more of these and they have been raised years ago 
already.

A software developer of a someone seasoned in the internals of eguile 
and css is probably able to hack something together, but an ordinary 
user (albeit somewhat technically proficient in css, html and some 
scripting languages) has little chance of addressing this issue.

Questions I have are:

1. Do people in other parts of the world not want to send professional 
looking invoice to their clients?  Are they even using GNUCash for 
invoicing?  This seems like a core feature of GNUCash that is just being 
ignored. (2016 is 7 years ago!)

2. The GNUCash roadmap pages <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Roadmap> say 
regarding Scheme: /"Scheme is impenetrable to most programmers. 
Expecting users to be able to write reports in Scheme is completely 
unreasonable."/  This is true, but the general usability of GNUCash 
reports must be expanded so that any report can be selected as the 
default for a particular feature (like invoicing). /*Surely this is a 
core requirement, is it not?*/ If we have the feature to add a menu 
option <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Adding_Menu_Items>, 
then it could be a fairly trivial matter for a developer to add the 
functionality to select a saved report (or some customised invoice) as 
the default when the "print invoice" button is pressed?

3. Is there some bounty system where one could contribute to speed up 
this feature?

I'm a huge FOSS fan and if there is some way in which I could help to 
get this implemented, please let me know!

regards

Roland