It's telling you that commodity can't have a negative pricing.
That would mean people pay you to take stuff from them. That would mean
it's not you who are buying their services, it's them paying for your
services.
So just rewrite this:
11.00 h @ -$50.00
into this:
-11.00 h @ $50.00
But that wouldn't make sense either because I assume you're giving them
your hours. They're giving you money.
So their account of hours is credited (added to), while their dollar
account is debited (removed from).
That's how it should look like:
2019-03-14 Invoice Clienta ; :Invoice: 201901
; Invoice: 201901
; Period: 2019-02-01--2019-03-02
Income:Consulting 11.00 h @ $50.00
Income:Consulting 7.00 h @ $50.00
Income:Consulting 7.00 h @ $50.00
Income:Consulting -$1250.00
Assets:Accounts
Or even better:
2019-03-14 Invoice Clienta ; :Invoice: 201901
; Invoice: 201901
; Period: 2019-02-01--2019-03-02
Asset:Time:Consulting 11.00 h @ $50.00
Asset:Time:Consulting 7.00 h @ $50.00
Asset:Time:Consulting 7.00 h @ $50.00
Income:Consulting
The transaction above means that you're lending hours at a given price to
the firm you're consulting.
So income account is credited (money are added to it)
After they pay your invoice you would have another transaction:
2019-03-15 Payday
Assets:Accounts:Cash $1250.00
Income:Consulting -$1250.00
Here money are deducted from income account and your cash amount is
increased.
On Tuesday, 23 July 2019 20:19:19 UTC+3, Boyd Kelly wrote:
>
> I've been trying to find the right template for an invoice and i have this:
>
> 2019-03-14 Invoice Clienta ; :Invoice: 201901
>
>
> ; Invoice: 201901
>
>
> ; Period: 2019-02-01--2019-03-02
>
>
> Income:Consulting 11.00 h @ -$50.00 ; Rendered at x ; Period:
> 2019-02-10--2019-02-16
> Income:Consulting 7.00 h @ -$50.00 ; Rendered at x ; Period:
> 2019-02-17--2019-02-23
> Income:Consulting 7.00 h @ -$50.00 ; Rendered at x ; Period:
> 2019-02-23--2019-03-02
> Assets:Accounts Receivable:Clienta
>
> hledger r and b commands work just fine.
>
> ~ ledger hledger r Receiv -e 20190315
> 2019/03/14 Invoice Clienta
> Assets:Accounts Receivable:Clienta $ 1,250.00
> $ 1,250.00
>
> But ledger is giving me this:
>
> ~ ledger ledger r Receiv
> In file included from "/data/ledger/business/general.journal", line 3:
> While parsing file "/data/ledger/business/invoices.journal", line 9:
> While parsing posting:
> Income:Consulting 11.00 h @ -$50.00 ;
> Rendered at ; Period: 2019-02-10--2019-02-16
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> *Error: A posting's cost may not be negative*
>
> As I understand Income account needs to be negative and it seems work.
> But then why is ledger giving me this message? What do I have to do to my
> file to keep it compatible? Appreciate any answers and any ideas also as
> to the Invoice format.
>
>
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