[GNC] Have I got my USD accounts set up wrong?

[Adrien Monteleone]

Once again - please remember to reply to the list...

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It was several replies up the thread, but I was replying to your point 
about being able to delete payments for only some currencies. (though 
you've now discovered that currency isn't a limitation)

Here was my posting:

> Let's get some terminology and workflow straight:
> 
> 1. Using the Business Features, Invoices and Bills are entered in a separate UI, *not* directly in an account register.
> 
> 2. Posting these, results in transactions appearing in the respective A/R or A/P accounts.
> 
> 3. Those transactions are immutable at this point and cannot be edited or deleted from either the AR/AP accounts, or the other side of their transactions. (Income accounts in the case of Invoices, or Expense accounts in the case of Bills) At this point, no bank account or other 'payment account' is involved.
> 
> 4. Payments can either be entered via the 'Process Payment' function, or entered directly into an appropriate account register. (or imported into said register) If directly entering or importing, you then have to right-click the transaction and choose 'Assign as payment' to bring up the 'Process Payment' dialog to formally link the payment transaction to an Invoice or Bill. These transactions affect and appear in the source account and either AR/AP accordingly. They are always editable and delete-able from any affected register. The Invoice/Bill posting status has no bearing on this. However, while you can edit them directly, you generally should do so by right-clicking and choosing 'Edit payment'.

Does that clear up the issue concerning deleting payments?

Note, I think there is a bug concerning invoices showing still as paid 
after a payment is deleted, but that might only be in the Invoice UI. 
I'm not sure that is the case everywhere. I'd have to investigate. I 
also don't know if that bug has been filed.

Regardless, if after deleting a payment, you unpost and repost the 
invoice, it should now show as unpaid since GnuCash can't find the 
original payment to re-link it.

There is nothing odd about being able to delete a payment.

Regards,
Adrien

p.s.—I also attached your images you sent here for anyone else following 
along.

On 11/29/23 6:11 PM, David Kirkby wrote:
> I can’t seem to find the relevant post of yours, but I realise my current accounts are corrupted in some way, if I right click on any transaction in the bank account I see this. 
> 
> <image.png>
> Note the invoice is posted - I can jump to see if I want, and it will show as PAID. Then if I click "Delete transaction" I see this. 
> 
> <image-1.png>
> 
> If I click "Delete transaction", the money disappears from the bank account, but the invoice is still showing as paid. 😪😪😪😪
> 
> I thought this issue was only happening with non-GBP transactions, but I can see I can do it with GBP transactions too. Em,. I need to retrieve an older backup, where there was a message saying the transaction was posted, and it needed to be unposted before being deleted. 
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