[GNC] Bills with Refund Entries

[Jediator]

Thanks for all your responses.  It turned out that I misunderstood how 
GnuCash manages account payable.  I was expecting the refund item (with 
a +amount) showing up in the running balance after assigning the 
corresponding refund transaction to the bill, but it didn't.   Instead, 
the refund amount is subtracted from the the last transaction amount.  
As shown in the attached sample bill printout, the refund amount 
($36.42) is subtracted from the last payment transaction of $100, which 
ends with a transaction amount of -$63.58.  Why this number reduction 
only occurs with the last payment instead immediately after the refund 
assignment is still a mystery to me...

False alarm. No need for bug report.

-- ND

On 3/28/26 7:43 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Can you give us a generic example?
>
> For instance, is this similar:
>
> Item #1        $100
> Refund        -$20
>
> Bill Total    $100
>
> Instead of:
>
> Bill Total    $80
>
> ??
>
> If so, I'd call that a bug.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 3/26/26 8:07 PM, Jediator wrote:
>> I noticed when creating an itemized bill with refund entries (with 
>> negative item amount), the refund entry shows correctly on the vendor 
>> report after rendering the refund transaction against the bill. 
>> However, the refund entry doesn't get included in the running total 
>> of the bill as shown in the Printable Invoice report.
>>
>> Could this be a bug? or entering a refund/negative amount in a bill 
>> isn't a correct practice?  I didn't want to create a separate credit 
>> note for the refund but want to include the refund entry/entries in a 
>> single job bill.
>>
>> I am running GNC version 5.14 on a Mac with Postgresql as the 
>> back-end database.
>
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