Before you can do any of the below, you need to “enable business features”. I don’t run GnuCash on this machine, so I don’t know exactly where that is - something anyone only does once - but when you have done that you can create customers (who buy from you) and vendors (who sell to you), and then create invoices (associated with customers) and bills (associated with vendors). Normally when invoices and bills are “posted” they create entries in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable respectively - which you don’t manipulate directly. When you make/receive payment you go to the corresponding menu item (vendor->process payment or customer->process payment) and fill in the fields in the form that appears.
At first it seems like a lot of overhead to have to create a customer for an invoice (if any one customer is unlikely to be repeat, you might want a pseudo-customer that you re-use) or a vendor for a bill (more likely that vendors are recurring). But once they’ve been created you just select them and there’s less typing. > On Mar 29, 2019, at 7:23 AM, Justin Haynes <justinhenryhay...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Gustav, try what Geert says. You’ll need an Accounts Payable account under > liabilities, and this is a standard accounting practice. > > When you create a new bill you post it, and it shows in Accounts Payable. > When you pay against that bill, it goes also to Accounts Payable. The > billing system keeps vendors and bills organized so you know how much you owe > each vendor and for what. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 29, 2019, at 5:42 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Gustav, >> >> Welcome to gnucash! >> >> It's not clear what you mean with "I don't have a way to log in a bill...". >> Did you try >> Business->Vendor->New Bill... ? >> What exactly didn't work ? >> >> Regards, >> >> Geert >> >> Op donderdag 28 maart 2019 21:24:41 CET schreef Gustav Kriek: >>> Hi there >>> I'm new to using Gnucash and its also the first time I'm doing my own >>> books. I just started working for myself, and as sole proprietor I need to >>> keep better track of things. >>> Ive set up all of my accounts and brought everything up to date...took me >>> quite a few hours to be honest. I just realised I dont have a way to log in >>> a bill, see when its must be paid or indicate it has been paid. I presume I >>> didnt make the correct selection when I chose my hierarchy. I don't want to >>> create a new profile because it took so long. Is there a way I can add this >>> in to what I already have? >>> I would appreciate any advise. >>> Gustav >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
