[GNC] Two invoices, two customers, one bank transfer

[Adrien Monteleone]

As this is similar to the recent question about setting up a medical 
payment plan with a higher vendor entity, here is how you could do this 
in your case:

1. Set up individual Customer accounts for each child
2. Set up a Customer account for the parent
3. Book the charges for each child in separate invoices as you normally 
do, but against an Accrued Receivables account rather than regular AR 
(can be a sub-account of AR, which allows for automatic roll-up totals 
in reports)
4. 'pay' those invoices with an invoice booked to the parent Customer 
against the Accrued Receivables account and regular AR.
5. When you receive actual payment from the parent, post it against 
their invoice.

This should give you an accurate model of the real world and allow for 
the most flexible reporting.

Regards,
Adrien

On 11/3/25 8:52 AM, Christian H. Kuhn via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 31.10.2025 um 06:57 schrieb Adrien Monteleone:
>> I don't think you can do that in GnuCash in one step.
> 
> Grmpf. Perhaps i file a bug report.
> 
>> You'll either need to use an intermediary account, or just record it 
>> as two payments and put good notes.
> 
> So that's what i have to do. An intermediary account will be the least 
> confusing.