.......
Just creating the transaction directly is not sufficient -- you still have
to map it to the Customer to "pay" the invoice.
The Help manual
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/busnss-ar-payment1.html has
a
description of how to do this using the process payment process which does
have
a restriction on processing the payment to an expense account. The key is
to
select an asset account (e.g. cheque account) when creating the
transaction in
Process payment and then after the transaction is created change the
account
from the asset account to the Expense:Bad Debt account. It is only the
process
payment procedure which has a restriction on the type of account you can
select
for a payment and there is no way that GnuCash could internally
differentiate
between a payment to an Bad Debts expense account and any other expense
account
as there isn't a specific account type for bad debts.
And there shouldn't be (some special provision JUST for "bad debt"
because there are other ways the invoice could be "paid" in exchange for
an expense being covered. In other words, a transaction originally
intended to be "for money" ends up as "barter"
Michael
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