Adrien, You're misunderstanding OP's issue, I believe.
Jose, I believe that you're concerned that the single deposit for $200 (to take your example) appears 3 times in the checking register, correct? This is expected behavior for the situation you describe. This is because the register in basic view displays each of the entries you made into the account (for each client) separately. As far as I know, there is no way to change this when using the basic register view-- although there is a simple workaround, which is to change the register view to Transaction mode. This view will eliminate the duplicated entries, and it will also show you all the entries of all the transactions in the register all the time. It can limit the breadth of data you see in one screen, though. Adrien's intermediary account option might work for you, but I don't have advice on that. One other option would be to go back to entering only the total amount of the deposit, rather than breaking out each client. David T. On February 27, 2026 1:50:14 AM GMT+05:30, Adrien Monteleone <[email protected]> wrote: >Are you using the Business Features, or just doing manual entries? > >The Business Features cannot handle multiple entities, that is, >Vendors/Customers in the same document. (Bill/Invoice/Payment) It can handle >multiple of one of any of those for the *same* Vendor/Customer however. (such >as multiple payments per invoice, or multiple invoices paid with a single >payment) > >If you want to use the Business Features but still handle multiple entities >with a single document/transaction, you'll need to use an intermediary or >holding account to first record the payment, and then use that transaction to >apply to each Customer. (you may even have to do that second part manually >regardless) > >If you are doing this entirely manually, without the Business Features, then >this is as simple as creating a complex(multi)-split transaction like so: > >Dr. Checking $200 > Cr. Income:Client A $50 > Cr. Income:Client B $70 > Cr. Income:Client C $80 > >(or whatever makes sense in your business—I'm not entirely following your >explanation of the real-world transaction) > >Whatever your approach, I recommend trying to model the real-world transaction >as closely as possible. (and always enter as much detail as possible, even if >you don't think you need it now, you will be glad you did later!) > >Regards, >Adrien > >On 2/26/26 1:37 PM, Jose Fuenzalida wrote: >> Hi; my wife has a very small private practice and I have been writing >> entries in our checking account and her Business checking without much >> detail in them ( the entries ) Everything is into one file ,it is much >> easier to see everything in this way. >> >> Recently I tried to help her a bit but I ran into a problem : in order to >> enter an income check from insurance company X I tried to enter more detail >> because she gets a check for lets say 3 clients ,this 3 clients belong to >> the same insurance company X but since the have different >> >> rates of pay, example : client A gets paid $50 , client B gets paid $ 70 and >> client C gets paid $80 for a grand total of $ 200 so my wife gets a check >> for $ 200 from Insurance Company X ,before I use to just enter the total >> amount into her business checking account but a week ago >> >> tried to enter or make that entry a Split entry trying to enter the 3 >> clients and their amount of payment ,every entry from this goes into an >> Income account Named Insurance Company X , now every time that I input an >> entry or client into the Split Gnucash asks where this >> >> money is from so in the transfer column I choose Income:Insurance Co. X I >> do this for each client ,when I check the entry in the Income :Insurance Co. >> X I find now 3 separated entries basically all the same each one of them >> with a Split and in it the 3 Clients. when in fact I >> >> only input one entry in the corresponding Assets:Business Checking , one >> Split with the 3 clients in it not 3 as is shown in the Income: Insurance >> Co. X part of the equation. >> >> The question is : is there any way to input only one entry in the checking >> account and get only one entry in the income account? > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >[email protected] >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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
