[GNC] Attaching receivables to a customer?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

If you want to use the GnuCash Invoice system then yes, you should create
the invoice and then add the line-items to the invoice over time.  Then,
when you are ready you would post the invoice which adds those line-items
into the CoA as your Income and A/R transaction.

-derek

On Tue, July 29, 2025 10:52 am, Simon Roberts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I fear this is one of those silly things where I'm doing (have done) this
> wrong because I don't know what to look for in the manual.
>
> I have a (new) client that I/m doing a bunch of small jobs for. I added
> each of them as a transaction in an Income account, and marked the "other
> side" of the transaction as Accounts Receivable. This is what I've done in
> the past for single jobs. But now I want to make a single invoice
> enumerating all of these small jobs.
>
> How do I (or how should I have) associate these entries with the customer
> and collect them as line items in a single invoice? When I go to make the
> invoice, of course, I have to put all the entries in all over again (which
> would screw the balance anyway).
>
> Do I have to create an invoice up front, and then add the individual joba
> over the weeks, until I'm ready to send the invoice? I guess that would
> work? Clearly I should have thought this through before I started, but
> that's not the way life works when you want to move on with the revenue
> generating stuff. Sigh.
>
> Any pointers to the efficient route (or the manual topic that describes
> the
> efficient route) will be very welcome!
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
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