Re: [GNC] Duplicate invoice numbers

[Macho Philipovich]

Hello again,

I'm sorry: please disregard. I now see that invoice numbers can be 
edited even after invoice creation.


Macho


On 2023-11-01 3:47 p.m., Macho Philipovich wrote:

Dear Gnucash users,

I've ended up with about five pairs of invoices where each pair both 
share the same invoice number, due to bug #799118


My question is, short of simply unposting one of each pair, recreating 
them with a new/proper invoice number, and just abandoning the 
unposted ones like that, is there any thing I can do to recover from 
this?


Presently I don't believe I can even print them all because in reports 
you select the invoice only by invoice number.


Many thanks,

Macho
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[GNC] Duplicate invoice numbers

[Macho Philipovich]

Dear Gnucash users,

I've ended up with about five pairs of invoices where each pair both 
share the same invoice number, due to bug #799118


My question is, short of simply unposting one of each pair, recreating 
them with a new/proper invoice number, and just abandoning the unposted 
ones like that, is there any thing I can do to recover from this?


Presently I don't believe I can even print them all because in reports 
you select the invoice only by invoice number.


Many thanks,

Macho
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[GNC] Hamster integration

[Macho Philipovich]

Dear all,

I want to autogenerate GnuCash invoices from customer-work-hours 
previously tracked using the Gnome Time Tracker (aka Project Hamster).


Hamster allows TSV export, GnuCash allows CSV invoice import, so I 
assume it's just a matter of writing a script to massage Hamster TSV 
output into appropriate GnuCash CSV input.


My questions:

1. Has anyone else already done this?
2. If not, would it be of any use to share my work, or this just too niche?
3. If it would be of some use, where and how should it be shared?

(Please copy me on replies because I'm not subscribed to this list.)

Thanks,

Macho
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[GNC] Keyboard shortcut to open a custom report

[Macho Philipovich]

Dear all,

I'm hoping someone can provide advice or, ideally, a code snippet 
example showing how to set a keyboard shortcut that would open a custom 
report. I open a custom invoice all the time so this would be helpful.


Because custom reports (unlike built-in reports) are not openable 
directly by a menu item, my understanding is that this would have to be 
done using a binding rather than an accelerator (according to my reading 
of the "Keyboard Shortcuts" wiki page).


Many thanks for any help you can provide!

Macho

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Re: [GNC] Avoiding fractions in invoice reports

[Macho Philipovich]

Hi again,

In 4.4 Flatpak, the values in the Quantity field in the tax invoice now
appears in decimal rather than fractional form, but the Tax Rate still
appears as a fraction: bit of a strange result.

Thanks,
Macho

On 2021-02-28 10:39 p.m., Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Can you try the 4.4 Flatpak and see if the problem persists?
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 2/28/21 9:36 PM, Macho Philipovich wrote:
>> Thanks Adrien: I was not at all aware that option existed.
>>
>> Changed it as you suggested and no effect. I restarted GnuCash for
>> good measure and still nothing.
>>
>> Perhaps because these aren't prices/currency but quantities and
>> percentages?
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Re: [GNC] Avoiding fractions in invoice reports

[Macho Philipovich]

Thanks Adrien: I was not at all aware that option existed.

Changed it as you suggested and no effect. I restarted GnuCash for
good measure and still nothing.

Perhaps because these aren't prices/currency but quantities and percentages?

Macho


On 2021-02-28 10:27 p.m., Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Preferences > Numbers, Date, Time > Numbers: Force Prices to display
> as decimals.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 2/28/21 4:34 PM, Macho Philipovich wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've noticed that recently the Quantity and Tax Rate fields have started
>> displaying as fractions instead of decimal numbers in invoice reports.
>>
>> So on the tax invoice report what I now see is, e.g., "3/2" for a
>> quantity when I had input 1.5, which I don't want, and the invoice is
>> also now displaying the tax rate as "599/40%" which I really don't want.
>>
>> I don't see any relevant options for this report or elsewhere.
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[GNC] Avoiding fractions in invoice reports

[Macho Philipovich]

Hi there,

I've noticed that recently the Quantity and Tax Rate fields have started
displaying as fractions instead of decimal numbers in invoice reports.

So on the tax invoice report what I now see is, e.g., "3/2" for a
quantity when I had input 1.5, which I don't want, and the invoice is
also now displaying the tax rate as "599/40%" which I really don't want.

I don't see any relevant options for this report or elsewhere.

Technically what I'm concerned about is a custom report that I built a
long time ago that I think was based on the tax invoice, but if I open
the tax invoice itself I see the same behaviour there.

I'm on version 3.10 in standard Ubuntu repositories, and I think this
started within the last six months, though I couldn't tell you which
version it started with.

Many thanks for any help you can provide,

Macho


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[GNC] Paying for transaction report customizations

[Macho Philipovich]

Hi all,

I made some simple customizations to the Transaction report under 2.x
that I unfortunately don't have the time to reimplement for 3.x and 4.x,
so I'm writing to ask if anyone on the list would be willing to
implement these for me if I pay them. I'd be happy for the result to be
licensed under the GPL.

I can explain what I need fairly succinctly: I use this custom report
exclusively on a single asset bank account (the "target account") for a
given calendar month (the "report month").

The necessary customizations are:

  * Adding three new columns to the report:
 1. Customer name - will be empty except for transactions between
the target account and an A/Receivable, in which case it will
show the customer name associated with the invoice for to the
accounts receivable transaction.
 2. Job number - same as previous but the Job Number associated with
the invoice, if any
 3. Balance - the balance of the target account following the
transaction
  * The ability to rename column headings, including the three mentioned
above (something like to what you can do in the Tax Invoice under
the Headings Options)

Other non-essential changes that would be helpful if they are relatively
easy to implement:

  * Adding a subtitle to the report indicating the report month in words
in the appropriate locale (e.g. "May 2019", although I'll be using
the report in French so it would be "mai 2019")
  * Support for an arbitrary css file (like you can do for the Tax
Invoice report in its Display Options)
  * Ability to reorder the columns (or just choose a fixed order
different from the existing default)
  * Under general options: instead of a start date and end date, just
pick the calendar month that you want to use
  * Add an extra row at the start of the report that is empty except
that it gives the opening balance of the target account at the start
of the month

If anyone wants to send a quote for how much they might charge for this,
or if you have ideas of anywhere else I could solicit help with it,
please just let me know.

Thanks!

Macho

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Re: [GNC] Custom reports don't survive upgrade to v3

[Macho Philipovich]

Thanks to Christopher, Geert, and David for your responses last week.

Based on the information you provided, I've been able to begin to sort
out the changes with 3.x.

I was able to restore my custom fork of the Tax Invoice.

But I'm still working at restoring a custom .scm I had forked off of the
Transaction report.

When I start to work based off of the file
/usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/standard-reports/transaction.scm I
seem to get the Reconciliation Report, which is not what I want. Is
there any easy way to copy transaction.scm to ~/.config/gnucash and have
it act like the Transaction Report instead?

If I understand correctly, they both inherit from the General Ledger,
but I don't want to work based on its file, from that low a level either.

I'm hoping that from there I can recreate my previous custom changes in
the 3.x version of the report, and document those changes well in case
further upgrade require this again.

Thanks so much!

Macho



On 2019-07-03 7:41 a.m., Christopher Lam wrote:
> Hi Macho
> There were API changes between 2.x and 3.x, and there'll be further
> ones from 3.x and 4.x
> Perhaps you'd be kind to post your custom .scm files on bugzilla, and
> the stack traces?
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 01:50, Macho Philipovich  <mailto:mach...@riseup.net>> wrote:
>
> Dear gnucash users,
>
> I decided to upgrade from the long-term support version of Ubuntu
> to the
> current stable version this weekend.
>
> This change, I would later learn, entailed upgrading gnucash from
> v2.6.19 to v3.4.
>
> The upgrade went fine, except that none of my four or five custom
> reports work any more.
>
> They mostly don't give any helpful error information but just show:
>
>     *Report error*
>     An error occurred while running the report.
>
> One of the reports does, however, give some sort of stack trace,
> though
> it's not terribly instructive either.
>
> It's been quite a while since I've looked at any of this, so revisions
> currently feel a bit daunting, but I do rely significantly on these
> custom reports.
>
> If anyone could point me to any resources on the changes to the
> reports
> API since v2 and to any debugging resources, it would also be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> The reports are my own creations, except that one is an extremely
> helpful year-to-date budget report that Phil Longstaff (in cc)
> provided
> me some time ago over this list in a file he called ytd-budget.scm.
> Phil, if by chance you've revised your report, I'd greatly
> appreciate a
> copy. And I would very much +1 this report becoming part of the
> standard
> reports provided within gnucash.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Macho
>
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Budgets: showing total-to-date in budget period, and previous month totals only

[Macho Philipovich]

Dear Gnucash Users,


I am looking to for a report/view that will show
budgeted/actual/difference amounts for selected accounts for the
previous month, as well as the totals for all months to date in the
current budgeting period.


The wiki seems to suggest that GnuCash does not natively support this,
but that it's possible using the third-party "Little Budget Tool":


https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Budget_History#Add-On:_.22The_Little_Budget_Tool.22


When I tried to download and compile the said software, however I didn't
get anywhere. I couldn't get ./configure to recognize the presence of
qt, and when I told it to ignore, it balked on the first g++ command. On
the one hand, it would not surprise me to learn that I'm just not doing
the configure && make process properly. On the other, this software was
last revised thirteen years ago.


Any advice you can provide on getting the report view I'm looking for
would be greatly appreciated!


Thanks,

Macho


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Re: Invoices: multilingual & tax detail questions

[Macho Philipovich]

Thanks Derek,


On 2018-01-15 11:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Unfortunately the report translation is based on your system locale.

Ah, of course! I can just run Gnucash from terminal after changing the
locale environment variable whenever I want to print French invoices.
Excellent!

>
>> Is there any way to separate the two VAT taxes within the invoice?
> Of course.  Set a tax table with two entries (one for GST, one for PST)
> and when you print the invoice select the "show individual taxes" option
> (which may be called something else, but that's the gist of the option).

I was initially perplexed by this, and then I realized: I'm using a
customized version of the "Tax Invoice" report, which is the only
invoice report that doesn't include the option that you're referring to.
This seems to be because this report shows taxes beside each invoice
item, as well as at the end as a total, which I guess is reasonable.

The only reason I'm using "tax invoice" in particular is that it was the
only one for which I could easily locate the eguile source to customize
it, whereas I could not figure out how to edit the other invoice
reports. You've already helped more than enough, but if you have any
pointers on how I can incorporate an arbitrary css style into one of the
other invoices, the way tax invoice allows in its options, I'd be grateful.

Thanks again for your answers above! Simple, yet very helpful.

Macho


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Invoices: multilingual & tax detail questions

[Macho Philipovich]

Dear fellow Gnucash users,

I have two questions about invoices.

First, I deal with some of my clients in French, some in English. I'd
like to be able to provide invoices in either language. Gnucash reports
generally allow me to edit all of the headings in the options menu and
then save the report configuration, which is helpful, but is there a way
that I can switch the display to use the French style for currency
amounts, i.e. use a comma instead of period to indicate cents, and show
the dollar sign after the amount instead of before?

Second, in Quebec we have to charge two VAT taxes (federal GST and
provincial QST), and my understanding is that the authorities prefer
that we show the calculation of those taxes separately on invoices and
that we provide customers with our registration numbers for each tax as
part of the invoice, so that they can provide them when claiming those
taxes back if need be. Is there any way to separate the two VAT taxes
within the invoice? Currently I've just added a note explaining this and
providing the registration numbers in the notes/terms part of the
invoice, but I wonder if there isn't a better way.

Thanks, as always,

Macho


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Receivable accounts not showing up?

[Macho Philipovich]

Hi again,

When I go to post my invoices, not all of the accounts receivable I've
(tried to) set up are selectable.

What criteria does it use to determine what goes there? I would think it
would be anything of type "A/Receivable", but of the 6 I've set up (all
but two as a test), only two of them are showing up, and only ones that
are in the main currency.

The context is that I'm trying to create a second account receivable in
a different currency to invoice a client in another country.

Thanks for your help!

Macho



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Arbitrary css in a report

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Hi there,

The tax invoice report has an extremely helpful option that allows you
to specify the name of an arbitrary css file to invoke in the resulting
report.

I'd love to be able to do this in other reports but I can't just steal
the tax invoice code because it uses eguile, which the others don't, so
the structure is different.

Can anyone say what code fragment to add at what point to just get the
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Re: Savings xfr from checking puzzle

[Macho Philipovich]

Hi Clifford,

Yes, assets is exactly right!

When creating your budget, enter the amount you plan to transfer into
your savings account every month under Assets>Savings, rather than an
expense account, and that should do it!

Essentially what you're doing is budgeting to plan to have your assets
increase (by accumulating savings) rather budgeting to spend the money
(an expense).

Does that help?

Macho


On 2017-08-05 06:59 PM, Clifford Rourke wrote:
>> I love Gnucash!
>
>> Now, I get a pension check auto deposited to checking.  Each month I
>> transfer a little to savings. I"m trying to "expense" the transfer as
>> planned in my budget. This is evidently not the way to budget, then move
>> income to savings as it doesn"t show up in fhe budget report. The Mrs says
>> this is a transfer of assets vs an expense.  I want the budget to show
>> monthly savings deposits from checking. Thoughts?
>
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Re: Interest / late penalties on invoices

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Great, thanks! I'll have a look.

On Aug 5, 2017, 6:32 PM, at 6:32 PM, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote:
>Send them a Customer Report
>That's what it's for.
>
>-derek
>Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>
>
>
>On August 5, 2017 6:03:53 PM Macho Philipovich <mach...@riseup.net>
>wrote:
>
>> Thanks David.
>>
>> Since the goal is to make it as convenient as possible for clients to
>> pay, I'd really like to present them with a simple document that
>clearly
>> indicates the total outstanding amount owing, rather than a series of
>> invoices they have to try to sum up.
>>
>> Perhaps the solution is to send all the invoices with a cover sheet
>> listing the total, but that also seems unnecessarily complicated.
>>
>> If anyone has any further thoughts I'd be happy to hear them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Macho
>>
>>
>> On 2017-08-04 09:56 PM, DaveC49 wrote:
>>> Macho,
>>>
>>> From an accounting perspective, the interest charge is not incurred
>until
>>> the original invoice is overdue past the agreed date and should be
>recorded
>>> as such at that time, while the original sale is recorded at the
>date at
>>> which it occurred.
>>>
>>> On this basis, I think it would be most appropriate to issue an
>additional
>>> invoice for the interest charges referencing the original invoice at
>the
>>> date those charges become applicable and then forward a copy of the
>original
>>> invoice along with the invoice for the interest charges to the
>customer. If
>>> the invoice remains outstanding, then you would have to periodically
>e.g
>>> monthly or quarterly send  new invoices for the accruing interest
>charges.
>>>
>>> In mananging this for low value sales, the additional cost of
>issuing and
>>> mailing the additional invoice may outweigh any additional gain from
>the
>>> interest charge, so it may be wise to have a threshold in the sale
>value,
>>> above which you change the terms of sale to include the interest
>charge for
>>> late payment, or more simply, not pursue the interest charges for
>sales
>>> below an appropriate threshold while keeping the provision in the
>terms of
>>> sale.
>>>
>>> You may also need to consider any constraints on policy imposed by
>any
>>> consumer protection legislation which may apply.
>>>
>>> It would be interesting to compare the effectiveness of offering a
>discount
>>> for early payment with the imposition of an penalty interest  (or
>using
>>> both) in encouraging prompt payment of invoices. Carrot or stick cf
>carrrot
>>> then stick?
>>>
>>>
>>> David Cousens
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: Interest / late penalties on invoices

[Macho Philipovich]

Thanks David.

Since the goal is to make it as convenient as possible for clients to
pay, I'd really like to present them with a simple document that clearly
indicates the total outstanding amount owing, rather than a series of
invoices they have to try to sum up.

Perhaps the solution is to send all the invoices with a cover sheet
listing the total, but that also seems unnecessarily complicated.

If anyone has any further thoughts I'd be happy to hear them.

Thanks,

Macho


On 2017-08-04 09:56 PM, DaveC49 wrote:
> Macho,
>
> From an accounting perspective, the interest charge is not incurred until
> the original invoice is overdue past the agreed date and should be recorded
> as such at that time, while the original sale is recorded at the date at
> which it occurred.
>
> On this basis, I think it would be most appropriate to issue an additional
> invoice for the interest charges referencing the original invoice at the
> date those charges become applicable and then forward a copy of the original
> invoice along with the invoice for the interest charges to the customer. If
> the invoice remains outstanding, then you would have to periodically e.g
> monthly or quarterly send  new invoices for the accruing interest charges. 
>
> In mananging this for low value sales, the additional cost of issuing and
> mailing the additional invoice may outweigh any additional gain from the
> interest charge, so it may be wise to have a threshold in the sale value,
> above which you change the terms of sale to include the interest charge for
> late payment, or more simply, not pursue the interest charges for sales
> below an appropriate threshold while keeping the provision in the terms of
> sale. 
>
> You may also need to consider any constraints on policy imposed by any
> consumer protection legislation which may apply.
>
> It would be interesting to compare the effectiveness of offering a discount
> for early payment with the imposition of an penalty interest  (or using
> both) in encouraging prompt payment of invoices. Carrot or stick cf carrrot
> then stick?
>
>
> David Cousens
>
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Interest / late penalties on invoices

[Macho Philipovich]

 Hi there,

How do you (or would you) handle interest or late charges on invoices
that go unpaid beyond the agreed time, say on a monthly basis, when this
was part of the initial agreement with the client?

Would you unpost your initial invoice, add the interest charges, then
repost and reprint it? Do the dates included need to change, in this
case? What if other new billable items have accrued in the intervening time?

Or is it better to somehow cancel the existing invoice and create a new
one, presumably with its own new invoice number?

Or is there some other, better way altogether of doing this? Issuing an
additional invoice that only contains the interest charge seems absurd,
but maybe there's another option I'm neglecting.

I couldn't find this addressed in the manual or anywhere else, so thanks
for any guidance you can provide!

Macho



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