[GNC] Need help: Invoice displays two extra decimal places in Unit Price column

John W. O'Brien john_gnucash-user at radioprosciutto.org
Fri Jul 18 22:22:15 EDT 2025


On 2025-07-16 18:35, John W. O'Brien wrote:
[...]
> There's ...something I'm still not getting... I 
> cannot figure out any way to get the unit price column to display as I 
> expect on an invoice.
> 
> I started with a fresh install of 5.12-2 (macOS ARM) after renaming ~/ 
> Library/Application Support/GnuCash so that I would get default 
> settings. I made a new file with all defaults. I made an invoice with 
> three line items with unit prices 1, 10, and 100. In the "View Invoice" 
> display, these values are rendered with two decimal places, which is 
> what I expect. In each of the four invoice reports (Easy, Fancy, 
> Printable, Tax) the same values are rendered with four decimal places. 
> None of the other currency fields [are rendered with four decimal places].
 > I confirmed that "Force Prices to display as decimals" is un-ticked.
 > If I understand [John Rall's] explanation correctly, this should be
 > the "force-to-decimal is off" and _can_ be presented exactly as a
 > decimal scenario. These values can be displayed exactly with zero
 > decimal places. I would settle for two.>
> What am I missing?

I hope I haven't caused any offense by suggesting this is anything other 
than my own misunderstanding. I would appreciate any help to either 
achieve my aim or understand why it is not achievable.

Thank you,
John


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