On Thursday, 8 March 2018 06:36:29 GMT DaCappie wrote: > Hi, > > On almost all my invoices for my business, I either request the customer > reimburse me for USPS shipping or filing fees. > > So, a typical invoice will have two lines: > > 1. WORK THAT IS DONE - income account - income:sales - $2,000 > 2. Shipping - income account - income:reimburseable expenses > > --- > > I post the invoice, then I get a deposit in my bank account. I assign that > deposit as a payment, so it goes to accounts receivable. It then shows up > on the invoice as a payment. > --- > > The problem is, if I do it this way, it's difficult to later try to tally up > how much money I actually was paid in SALES and not reimburseable expenses > for a period, because it groups the reimburseable expenses in there. > > Also, income:reimburseable expenses never is balanced, because I cannot > assign a payment, even when I split, and have a portion of it go to > income:reimburseable expenses, because when you assign the payment, it goes > to A/R. If I later modify the split portion that is for shipping to go to > income:reimburseable expenses, it no longer shows up on the invoice as a > payment. > > So what is the best way to do this? >
Hi, I'm not sure I quite understand you. If you report on Income:Sales and Income:reimbursableExps that should give you the totals for each type of income over the period. (hint: transaction report, Options -> Sorting -> Primary Key: AccountName, Secondary Subtotal:None) Edit: just thought - is this related to your other question from a different username about unpaid invoices.... I can't see any way to allocate the unpaid balance between unpaid sales and un-reimbursed expenses. As to your other question, why would an income account ever be balanced? It should keep increasing over time. Presumably you have a matching expense account, something like Exps:ToBeReimbursed which will "cancel" the income account balance at tax time? Maf. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.