Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Dan Widyono [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suspense accounts are a user thing. GnuCash doesn't care, and indeed shouldn't care. You can Process Payment into a Suspense Account just as easily as you can Process Payment into a Checking Account. Is it useful to allow aliases for Account Types?

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Mike or Penny Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh dear, making me sorry I ever brought the issue up. Look, I'm not an accountant but have worked on systems that have to record billings and payments. Yes, some businesses do put suspense money into a separate bank account (asset side of the

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-18 Thread Dan Widyono
Suspense accounts are a user thing. GnuCash doesn't care, and indeed shouldn't care. You can Process Payment into a Suspense Account just as easily as you can Process Payment into a Checking Account. Is it useful to allow aliases for Account Types? Or to add a Suspense type which is just a

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-18 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Suspense accounts are a user thing. GnuCash doesn't care, and indeed shouldn't care. You can Process Payment into a Suspense Account just as easily as you can Process Payment into a Checking Account. Is it useful to allow aliases for Account Types? Or to add a Suspense type which is just

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-14 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, I'm sure you meant this in a constructive way, but even after reading this over several times over a couple days it still comes across as condescending. I'm SURE you didn't mean it that way, but honestly, I (and most of the GnuCash developers) have a lot of experience in software

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-11 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Doing multiple non-consecutive invoices for the payment process would be arbitrarily complex. At that point the real answer is a real solution to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108570 In my business experience this disputing an invoice is extremely rare, so I dont think that

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-10 Thread Derek Atkins
John Z. Bohach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, a drop down list for all that stuff would be great, like the combo box idea, but for invoices, keep in mind it would still be nice to select multiple non-sequential ones, hopefully the combo-box allows that. Doing multiple non-consecutive

Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread John Z. Bohach
Hello, I am a programmer, even did some Scheme work way back in the old days (loved programming in Scheme...) of TI-Scheme on a IBM-DOS box. Judging from some of the comments on the gnucash-users mailing list, my own experiences, and reality, it is quite often the case that a customer will

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread Derek Atkins
Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices in FIFO order. If you select an invoice in the process payment dialog (you dont have to! it's completely optional) then it puts that invoice at the front of the FIFO, but any overpayment will then spill over to the next one in the

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread John Z. Bohach
On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:23:54 pm Derek Atkins wrote: Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices in FIFO order. If you select an invoice in the process payment dialog (you dont have to! it's completely optional) then it puts that invoice at the front of the FIFO,

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread Nigel Titley
John Z. Bohach wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:23:54 pm Derek Atkins wrote: Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices in FIFO order. If you select an invoice in the process payment dialog (you dont have to! it's completely optional) then it puts that invoice at

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread Nathan Buchanan
Hi John, On 8/9/07, John Z. Bohach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:23:54 pm Derek Atkins wrote: Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices in FIFO order. If you select an invoice in the process payment dialog (you dont have to! it's completely

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread Josh Sled
John Z. Bohach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But documentation enhancements aside, I think others have also expressed an interest in not always having to do a 'find ...' {invoice,customer,etc.} and just rather have a drop down list show everything for that category, but that's getting off on a

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread John Z. Bohach
On Thursday 09 August 2007 04:29:33 pm Nathan Buchanan wrote: Hi John, On 8/9/07, John Z. Bohach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:23:54 pm Derek Atkins wrote: Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices in FIFO order. If you select an invoice

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread John Z. Bohach
On Thursday 09 August 2007 06:35:45 pm Josh Sled wrote: John Z. Bohach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But documentation enhancements aside, I think others have also expressed an interest in not always having to do a 'find ...' {invoice,customer,etc.} and just rather have a drop down list show