[GNC] What's the actual usage of "Default Chargeback Project"?

[Adrien Monteleone]

That's a great question. Over the years as I've read threads on this my 
understanding is that 'job for customer A' is *not* the same 'job' as 
'job for Vendor B' regardless of the name of the job. They are distinct 
data elements.

My other understanding is that the feature was supposed to be for making 
it easier to pass vendor charges on to a customer. (as you're trying to 
do) but the above issue appears to make that not possible.

Perhaps someone who uses this feature can expound.

*note, 'job' is a poor word choice in the UI as it has been more 
accurately described by its creator as a 'purchase order'. I've filed a 
bug on this but no action so far as I'm sure it is low priority. 
Additionally there are limitations on Jobs as they cannot cover more 
than one Vendor or more than one Customer. (so individual line items 
from a single PO from a regular Vendor/supplier can't be charged back to 
different customers - you'd have to artificially split it up to use the 
feature)

As for where Job info is used, there is a limited report that shows 
Vendor charges vs. Customer charges. (Reports > Business > Job Report) 
but at least as of 5.1, that is useless because there is no Option to 
select the Job you want to report on.

Regards,
Adrien

On 5/13/23 10:25 AM, BrianHsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to understand of the "Default Chargeback Project" field
> when creating a bill or an expense voucher from the Business module.
> 
>  From the online manual
> (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/busnss-ap-bills1.html),
> it I understand it correctly, it should be something like that:
> 
> 1. I have a "Project XYZ" for "Customer A".
> 2. I outsourced some programming job of "Project XZY" to "Vendor B"
> 3. I created a bill for "Vendor B", as they charged me USD $1000
> 4. In the that bill, I would record that the "Default Chargeback
> Project" is "Customer A" / "Project XYZ". So I know that this cost is
> for support that project.
> 
> If that's the case, I'm wondering where exactly these two field will be used?
> 
> It seems that I couldn't find any usage of these two field, except
> when I create / edit a bill or an expense voucher.
>