This use of lots sounds harmless and unlikely to break anything. You can find a handy Lot Viewer report in the Experimental reports, only visible by running GnuCash with --extra cli option.
On Tue, 12 July 2022, 1:29 am Mattia Rizzolo, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi people! > > Recently I've been noticing and using the "lots" feature a bit more, > and I'm finding it quite handy after all. > > > For example, as a FOSS contributor I find myself attending some events > and being sponsored for it, or have some expenses on behalf of projects > (say, I could buy promotional items (stickers, shirts, etc)) and later > be reimbursed for them. > > In those cases I don't really want to use an invoice (in which case I > could record a bill for the expense and "charge" it toward a given > client), as I'm not actually invoicing any clients and I don't really > want to have invoices in gnucash that don't actually exist also by the > national revenue agency > > So, I created an account Assets:AR:ToBeReimbursed where I charge all the > expenses that I plan to ask reimbursement for. In that account I create > a lot for each reimbursement request collecting all related expenses (for > example, all expenses that I incur while going attending and coming back > from an event) and a final transaction crediting this account and > debiting a different AR account when sending off the actual > reimbursement ticket to whatever organization. The goal is that making > sure that the lot is zero-ed out. > > > Now, I suspect I could create a new account for each event (or whatever > I have to do), but I found that this "lots" feature makes more sense in > my mind, as its own goal is exactly to link together related expenses. > > > So, concluding: I'm not sure if I'm doing justice to the feature by > using it this way, but if I am, I can likely find more uses for it. As > such, I wonder if any of the developers have any further plan for it? I > don't really have any particular UX/UI in mind, besides some kind of > sign (colour?) in the transaction ledger that highlight how a particular > transaction is related to another. Perhaps with some extra report also > highlighting them? > > -- > regards, > Mattia Rizzolo > > GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. > More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : > Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` > Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `- > _______________________________________________ > 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.
