> On Sep 11, 2019 w37d254, at 3:26 PM, Fred Smith via gnucash-user 
> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Right.  Why would a customer pay someone else's invoice?
> 
> Parent company paying utilities for its child companies?

Parents paying on their kids accounts, children paying for their parents, 
siblings paying the same. People who each have their own accounts and making a 
payment, but sharing a particular invoice that had to go under someone else’s 
name. (the sibling case is common here, like all paying for a gift for the 
parents that was on one siblings account)

It happens. Maybe not with more frequency than a few times per year unless 
you’ve got some sort of corporate arrangement like Fred noted, but it does 
happen.

As both Derek and I mentioned, a separate suspense account will suffice. Or as 
I also noted, taking the payment entirely from one customer as both regular 
payment and overpayment, then ‘refunding’ the overpayment and applying it to 
the other customer will also work. (One A/R program I used required just that 
workflow)

I can’t see offering this as a specific feature for such a small use case. I 
don’t know of any other accounting/pos/receivables software that offers this 
either, so it isn’t like GnuCash is the odd-one-out here.


Regards,
Adrien
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