[GNC] Payroll - basic

[Wm Tarr]

Richard, are you using voucher.chk or similar and just need that 
changing? If so that is an editable format and if you can't do it 
yourself someone familiar with checks should be able to help tidy it up.

see: B.1. Check Format Files (*.chk) 
<https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/check_format_info.html>

Wm

On 2026-07-24 13:46, J. Richard Herbert wrote:
> Thanks for keeping this going.
>
> What I see is that vouchers work great for expense vouchers, but the 
> also can work great for payroll while providing a paystub by using a 
> saved report to print the payroll voucher as a paystub. For the 
> paystub to be a professional looking, there needs to be a few minor 
> tweaks to Gnucash so that a saved a Paystub Report can be used with a 
> voucher to function for payroll - including using duplication of a 
> previously posted payroll voucher to quickly handle payroll. Large 
> companies have dedicated payroll systems, but small companies still 
> use an all-in-one program [Gnucash] to handle their bookkeeping and 
> payroll.
>
> Who does the RFE?
>
> On 7/23/26 17:36, flywire wrote:
>> Michael Novack 
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2026-July/121205.html 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     How hard might depend on familiarity with "functional" computer 
>> languages as opposed to "procedural" languages.
>>
>>
>> No. Based on Richard's explanation, my offer is to 
>> usehttps://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Introduction "The 
>> focus is onenough understandingto change (hack) existing reports."
>>
>> I agree with Adrien - 
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2026-July/121197.html 
>> to set up a RFE. I'm not going to do C++ code but with enough detail 
>> I'd look at tweaking a report.
>>
>> RFE needs:
>> 1. Sample GnuCash book and instructions to generate report, 
>> especially important for someone like me with no familiarity of this 
>> functionality
>> 2. Requirements (as listed in posts)
>> 3. Hopefully, identify specific report to change
>>
>> Report Bugzilla link back to this list
>>
>> Regards
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