[GNC] split transaction description field length limit

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 3/4/2024 10:43 AM, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote:
> You don't have to have 'a business' to use the business features.  You
> would need to set up an AP and AR account to post the invoices to.  To
> me, the vendor bill - payment system is the proper way to store the
> data, rather than kludging the memo fields.  Here is an example of a
> Costco receipt entered as a bill, then paid with a credit card through
> the vendor-payments section.  ........

Well, it's a little more complicated than that if you are keeping books 
on the "cash basis" and gnucash only supports invoices if on "accrual 
basis". Essentially at year end (or whenever before the usual reports 
typical of year end are run) you would need to make temporary adjusting 
transactions. That could be a lot of work or not much work. For example, 
if only using invoices (and AR and AP) for very limited purposes as in 
this example, not such a big deal to adjust for a couple of invoices 
still "open" at the end of the reporting period if there would be at 
most a couple of them.

Michael D Novack