That's a great question. Over the years as I've read threads on this my
understanding is that 'job for customer A' is *not* the same 'job' as
'job for Vendor B' regardless of the name of the job. They are distinct
data elements.
My other understanding is that the feature was supposed to be for making
it easier to pass vendor charges on to a customer. (as you're trying to
do) but the above issue appears to make that not possible.
Perhaps someone who uses this feature can expound.
*note, 'job' is a poor word choice in the UI as it has been more
accurately described by its creator as a 'purchase order'. I've filed a
bug on this but no action so far as I'm sure it is low priority.
Additionally there are limitations on Jobs as they cannot cover more
than one Vendor or more than one Customer. (so individual line items
from a single PO from a regular Vendor/supplier can't be charged back to
different customers - you'd have to artificially split it up to use the
feature)
As for where Job info is used, there is a limited report that shows
Vendor charges vs. Customer charges. (Reports > Business > Job Report)
but at least as of 5.1, that is useless because there is no Option to
select the Job you want to report on.
Regards,
Adrien
On 5/13/23 10:25 AM, BrianHsu wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to understand of the "Default Chargeback Project" field
when creating a bill or an expense voucher from the Business module.
From the online manual
(https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/busnss-ap-bills1.html),
it I understand it correctly, it should be something like that:
1. I have a "Project XYZ" for "Customer A".
2. I outsourced some programming job of "Project XZY" to "Vendor B"
3. I created a bill for "Vendor B", as they charged me USD $1000
4. In the that bill, I would record that the "Default Chargeback
Project" is "Customer A" / "Project XYZ". So I know that this cost is
for support that project.
If that's the case, I'm wondering where exactly these two field will be used?
It seems that I couldn't find any usage of these two field, except
when I create / edit a bill or an expense voucher.
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