On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 4:39 AM Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > Maybe I should put this a different way, the answers so far don't seem > to quite address my question, probably because I'm not describing what > I'm trying to do. > > So, very simply, say I am buying sweets in a shop and I select:- > > One bar of chocolate 0.99 > Two bags of pear drops 1.50 > Chewing gum 1.00 > > Then I pay the shopkeeper 3.49 > > > I want to record this in GnuCash in a way that shows that it is a > single transaction debiting 'cash in my pocket' and crediting > 'shopkeeper' but I want to detail the items making up the transaction. > > How do I do this? >
This may be simple, but why not have a split transaction: You reduce "cash" 3.49 You increase whatever expense account you use for sweets (using "Candy" below) Expenses:Candy 0.99 (and put "chocolate bar" in the description) Expenses:Candy 1.50 ("pear drops" in the description) Expenses:Candy 1.00 ("chewing gum" in the description) This is "one" transaction that has three separate entries to "Candy", with each saying what it was. OR, you could just have "Expenses:Candy" for 3.49 and list all three in the description. OR, if you are REALLY obsessed with tracking your sweets, you could create sub-accounts under candy for each type of candy you purchase. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.