Hi, Am 06.08.2018 um 22:05 schrieb Adrien Monteleone: > I have a customer that has several invoices open. The oldest one is rather > large so they are paying in installments. But when they pay these > installments they are also paying newer smaller invoices. > > But when I enter a payment GnuCash won’t let me split the payment between the > two. It forces the entire payment to the older invoice. (yes, I selected both > in the Process Payment window) This leaves the newer smaller invoice as > ‘unpaid’ and the older invoice as having more payment applied to it than > should be. > > I can’t fix this in lots (as far as I can tell) since there is only the one > split. > > If I try to adjust the payment transaction (from my cash account - not A/R), > that is, I’ve tried changing the amount posted to A/R to reflect the larger > payment on the older invoice, and then manually add a split to cover the new > invoice, and then ‘Edit Payment’ but GnuCash complains that one of the splits > is in a business account that isn’t a business transaction and tells me it’s > going to be ignored. > > So what I have is something like this: > > Dr. Cash $500 > Cr. A/R $500 > > But what I need is this: > > Dr. Cash $500 > Cr. A/R $450 > Cr. A/R $ 50 > > If the older invoice was being paid in full, this would work just fine, but > there is still a balance. GnuCash won’t let me split this payment and retain > everything in a single transaction. I suppose I could create two separate > payment transactions, but then this breaks up the actual customer payment > amount and makes it look like two payments instead of one. > > Any ideas?
My suggestion would be to create a temporary clearing account to which all total payments are posted before they’re split to the appropriate invoices, if there’s no solution with the business module. Kind regards Christian Kluge _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
