Sat, 16 Aug 2014 19:38:22 <[email protected]> Jesse
the Wind Wanderer <[email protected]>
Dear GNU Cash Development Team,
First can I say thank you for creating a professional accounting
software for linux and doing so as an open source project! You guys
ROCK! In fact your part of the reason I switched to linux in the first
place. You see when I started my business in 2006 I didn't have any
money and decided that if I was going to run a business I couldn't use
pirated software. I found GNUCash and the decision was made :-)
My question today is why are customer addresses mandatory? I'm a
performer and I often do gigs at parks & public places. My clients pay
me cash and I never need to know their actual address. Sure I can enter
a dummy address like "Unknown" but I wanted to ask if there was a
reason for making this field mandatory, is it used as an index in a
database? or is there some other programmatic reason it is required? or
was it just a user interface choice? If it's just an interface choice
could you please add an option to turn it off in the preferences.
There is no conceptual art or creative accounting involved.
If you have actual customers (Festival A, Fete B, Convention C) then
Cash Receipts is just another (albeit generic) customer. I'd have
thought you'd want to distinguish between various cash performance areas
(Glastonbury or Edinburgh, etc) to see which was best for next year, no
harm in accounting for them separately.
Note: no addresses are involved yet, just notions and concepts of
customer.
However, if you *only* have cash receipts and no customers then you
needn't run Accounts Receivable / Debtors / whatever they are called
where you are at all as those accounts are mainly about managing money
hoped for or expected rather than money already caught in a hat.
--
Wm...
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