As this is similar to the recent question about setting up a medical
payment plan with a higher vendor entity, here is how you could do this
in your case:
1. Set up individual Customer accounts for each child
2. Set up a Customer account for the parent
3. Book the charges for each child in separate invoices as you normally
do, but against an Accrued Receivables account rather than regular AR
(can be a sub-account of AR, which allows for automatic roll-up totals
in reports)
4. 'pay' those invoices with an invoice booked to the parent Customer
against the Accrued Receivables account and regular AR.
5. When you receive actual payment from the parent, post it against
their invoice.
This should give you an accurate model of the real world and allow for
the most flexible reporting.
Regards,
Adrien
On 11/3/25 8:52 AM, Christian H. Kuhn via gnucash-user wrote:
Hi,
Am 31.10.2025 um 06:57 schrieb Adrien Monteleone:
I don't think you can do that in GnuCash in one step.
Grmpf. Perhaps i file a bug report.
You'll either need to use an intermediary account, or just record it
as two payments and put good notes.
So that's what i have to do. An intermediary account will be the least
confusing.
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