[GNC] Why did "Assign as payment…" remove splits and notes from my payment transaction?

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 31 december 2024 11:17:49 Midden-Europese standaardtijd schreef Geert 
Janssens:
> The other option I would have suggested is to work with two payment
> transactions rather than one transaction with multiple splits. One payment
> transaction representing the money you actually received and one payment
> transaction representing the service charge. Unfortunately you can't create
> a payment transaction that transfers to an expense account (for no other
> reason than the expense accounts are not shown in the list of transfer
> accounts in the payment window). So even in this case you would have to do
> some post-processing. I'll describe the steps anyway in case you prefer
> this way of working:
> 
> 
> 1. as in the other scenario, import the Paypal transactions as simple
> two-split transactions, only representing the money you effectively
> receive.
> 
> 
> 2. again use Assign as payment to assign this transaction without
> modification to the invoice as partial payment.
> 
> 
> 3. Next, create a new payment for this invoice using Process Payment for the
> amount of the service charge. Now it would have been nice to be able to
> select an expense account directly but that's not possible via the payment
> window. So instead choose an arbitrary account you can select and complete
> this payment.
> 
> 
> 4. Open this new payment in a register and change the arbitrary account into
> the proper expense account.
> 
> 
> That as well should mark your invoice as fully paid.

I have pushed a change to gnucash this afternoon that will let you select an expense 
account as transfer account. So the second scenario should become easier to apply 
starting with gnucash 5.11

Regards,

Geert