Were I running the membership I would create a customer account for each
member and raise invoices, then you could use whatever
customer/payment tracking reports are available. This would simplify the
whole process and obviate the need for convoluted reporting processes.




On Sun, 8 Sept 2024 at 06:40, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user <
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> I use the approach that Tommy describes for my charitable donations and it
> works pretty well for comparing a moderate number of entries. I created two
> reports that are identical except for the date range (one for current year,
> the other for previous) and put them side by side on a multi column report
> page, which I also saved. Now, when I want to see whether I'm up to date
> with contributions, I run the saved multicolumn report.
>
> I'm not certain about how well it scales, but even with 300 entries, it
> could be addressed in a reasonable time.
>
> ⁣David T. ​
>
> On Sep 8, 2024, 3:19 AM, at 3:19 AM, Tommy Trussell <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 3:50 PM Gareth Davies via gnucash-user <
> >[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> All the members have their names and membership numbers entered on
> >one
> >> line.
> >>
> >> I can do a search using their individual membership no or names, but
> >that
> >> only brings up the payment history for that one person.
> >>
> >> To do that for over 300 members would be a nightmare
> >>
> >
> >The most certain way to handle it would be to create a separate account
> >in
> >GnuCash for each member and use something like the budget reports to
> >generate lists, but it sounds like that would be a great deal of effort
> >with 300 members.
> >
> >Given the way you describe entering the membership information (names
> >and
> >membership numbers OR membership numbers and names -- hopefully you
> >were
> >consistent from year to year!) I suggest you can generate a Transaction
> >report on whatever asset account(s) you used to receive the membership
> >money, sorted by whatever line you used to enter the information
> >(Description, Notes or Memo, for instance) and generate that report for
> >a
> >period of two years. Looking through it, you should be able to quickly
> >see
> >the folks who have only one entry for the two years.
> >
> >You may need to go back and do some clean-up of your data to enforce
> >some
> >consistency, and distinguish between people with similar names or
> >mis-entered membership numbers.
> >
> >NOTE this should still work fine if you received money into separate
> >accounts (checking, Venmo, PayPal) as long as you were consistent in
> >the
> >way you entered the information about each member.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> > On 7 Sep 2024, at 9:08 PM, Murugan Mariappan
> ><[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > You need to provide little more details on how you are registering
> >> payments. Does the payments have identifiers mapping to members ?
> >> >
> >> > Best way in your use case is to raise invoices to each member and
> >update
> >> payments so that you can track the invoices for payment.
> >> >
> >> > Regard
> >> >
> >> > Murugan
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> On 07-09-2024, at 15:42, Gareth Davies via gnucash-user <
> >> [email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >> As the Treasurer of a Club, I have been asked by the Membership
> >> Secretary to find out from the Membership Fee section, who hasn’t
> >paid
> >> their Subscription for this year.
> >> >>
> >> >> My question is, is there a way to compare this year’s payments to
> >the
> >> previous years, to find out who hasn’t paid.
> >> >> TIA
> >> >> Sent from my iPad
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