If you're so inclined, you are very welcome to create a transaction from Bank to A/Payable, then assign as payment to the vendor eg restaurant or grocery store. You can use the Vendor Report to show all payments. To be useful you'll want to create Bill from Vendor which then posts from A/P to the appropriate expense account eg Expenses:Restaurant. You'll be able to match the payments to the bills. Ideally you'll create the bill first then the payment afterwards.
But most of us wouldn't do this: we'd create payment from Bank to Expense:Restaurant directly. If we want to report all restaurant purchases, simply open the restaurant register and run an account report. On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, 6:10 am , <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a newbie on GnuCash, currently running it side-by-side with my > previous software which I can't install on Win10 without a very expensive > upgrade [currently logging into my old Win7 machine using Remote Desktop > but old machine is becoming unreliable]. > > In my old software, I could directly post incidental payments without > first creating an invoice. In GnuCash, it appears I need to create an > invoice prior to posting a payment. For a simple transaction like a store > or restaurant purchase, this seems somewhat cumbersome. > > I can create the transaction directly in the General Journal; however, > then I don't have a vendor summary. > > What am I overlooking? > > Regards, > > Jim > > James E. Gochnauer > Independent Claims Adjuster > Licensed/bonded/Xactimate certified > 132 Cleveland St. Flr 1 > Brooklyn, NY 11208 > CELL & TXT: 646-465-4800 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
