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That was significantly less painful than I imagined. If the payment window gets updated to handle this all the better, but I can certainly live with this. Also, thanks again for the ‘disabling automatic payments’ point, I think that’s been my major source of frustration when unposting invoices/bills that I need to edit and re-post. I certainly don’t mind manually re-applying payments if that saves me the trouble of working with the Lots window to fix a mess. Regards, Adrien > On Aug 6, 2018, at 3:38 PM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote: > > Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 22:05:06 CEST schreef 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? > > A use case that wasn't fully taken into account when redesigning the payment > window (although it did cross my mind at later times). > > What you can try is > - create a payment (via Process Payment) > - select only the smaller, more recent invoice > - adjust the payment amount to the full amount you received from your customer > - click ok > > Assuming you don't have automatic payment forwarding enabled (see my reply on > credit notes), this will create a prepayment for the difference between the > client's payment and the invoice you assigned. > > - Now reopen process payment and select the older, large invoice and the > prepayment. > - Set the remaining amount to pay to 0 > - click ok > > I *think* that should give you the assignments as you want. > > Regards, > > Geert _______________________________________________ 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.
