Roger, My apologies for any time wasted. I use my sub-account with manual entries. I see now the business features will not expose them in that payment drop down, regardless of type. (but you can use those asset (not A/R) accounts from the business features in line-items in bills/invoices as this is what I do. You can do the same with `other A/P`.) I first set this up using 2.6.17, and I see it still works the same in 3.5, so there is no version issue.
For you, I’d say the liability account is the way to go. Overall, it would be a nice RFE for the business features to have a function to charge-off a bad debt or more easily handle B2B trade type scenarios. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 10, 2019, at 4:05 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > Adrian, > > I did not know you could assign a different type account to a sub-account. > Tried that and it still does not show up in the receive payment window, even > after closing and reopening the program. When I added the bad debts account > as a sub of accounts receivable, GnuCash automatically assigned it the same > category as the parent account. What changing the type to asset did > accomplish was that it not longer shows up as an option in the dropdown lists > for account receivable account to charge in the invoice module, sub-tasks: > post the invoice and receive payment. > > I think if I selected the bad debt sub-account from that dropdown window it > would reflect the reduction in the rollup but I would have to come up with a > different asset, liability or equity account to receive the payment. > > The version of GnuCash I’m working with is indeed 2, specifically 2.6.17. The > version I use for my family finances and another business is 2.6.18, the one > on the computer I’m using to respond to these emails. I thought I had updated > the program on the other computer as well. I assume I can go from 2.6.17 to > 2.6.21 to 3.5. > > As for services in kind, I think the easiest solution is to create an > unearned income liability account and pay for the service from there. The > income invoice is then paid in the invoice module from the liability account, > the entire amount, so the balance in favor of the customer will show up in > the receive payment window and in the reports. > > Thanks, > Roger > _______________________________________________ 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.
