Thanks Adrien and David, I appreciate the response. I will try using memo or
description to keep track of expenses separately, and then see if I can't use a
transaction report or use the 'find' function to copy them into excel.
The way 'jobs' are set up is perhaps not the most intuitive, but I think I
understand it now.
Regards,
Andrew
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From: gnucash-user
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+across=arc-industrial@gnucash.org] On Behalf
Of Adrien Monteleone
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 11:52 PM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Different jobs for vendor or customer?
Ah, found it! (the thread) I knew I had saved it somewhere:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-August/079332.html
Derek explains there how ‘jobs’ were intended to work. They are really designed
more like ‘purchase orders’ where you can link multiple vendor bills to one PO.
A job can only have a single owner (vendor or customer) but any owner can have
multiple jobs.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jan 11, 2019, at 12:45 AM, Adrien Monteleone
> wrote:
>
> In line with David’s suggestion, I highly recommend turning on Transaction
> Journal view and Double-Line mode if you aren’t using them already.
>
> It takes up more real estate on your screen, but you are always seeing all
> info for a transaction. With this, you will see a note field just below the
> description. It is very useful in such cases for ‘purpose’ notes where the
> ‘description’ might be best suited for ‘payee’.
>
> You can then run Find operations filtering on the notes field and create
> register reports from the result. (and possibly the transaction report can
> use this as well, I haven’t tested) If you need more analysis, you can then
> export or copy/paste the resulting report to a spreadsheet.
>
> There is a thread or two explaining ‘jobs' very well from this past year. Do
> a search in the archives.
>
> The feature is extremely limited. It was not designed to aggregate all
> transactions related to a job, but really to facilitate billing an
> entire vendor invoice to a customer. (best I recall) You can’t mark
> individual line items to different customers, for example. I do
> remember from the threads that the person who wrote the code for them
> acknowledged the term ‘jobs’ probably wasn’t the best choice in
> hindsight as everyone seems to think they are something other than
> they are. Specific to your question, while you can create a job for a
> vendor bill, that is a different job than you create for customers,
> even if they have the same name. (2 independent lists of jobs)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>> On Jan 10, 2019, at 10:53 PM, David T. via gnucash-user
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Andrew,
>> I hope Gnucash will give you years of accounting bliss...
>> I can't answer the first question, since I do not use business features.
>> The second sounds like you're asking for something like Quicken's Classes,
>> which is a common request that no one has implemented in Gnucash. Yet?
>> Without creating separate accounts, you might simply use unique descriptions
>> (e.g., "African Safari 2019-01-12") and then use the latest version of the
>> Transaction Report to retrieve all items for that event. Otherwise, I have
>> no suggestions.
>> Cheers,David T.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 9:56, Andrew Cross wrote:
>> So I have finally managed to implement gnu cash and am settled that it is
>> going to do what I need it too. I am finally done with Quicken!
>> However, there is something that I am struggling to understand. When
>> I create job for a vendor bill, can I also use this job when I create a
>> customer invoice?
>> It seems that I cannot.
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, let's say I am leading tours and I have expenses related to
>> four different tours. I need to track the income and expenses for
>> these tours separately. How do I go about tracking the income and
>> expenses for each individual tour without setting up separate accounts for
>> each tour?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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