Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Well, certainly, importing transactions and *then* wanting tax splits is a whole other ball of wax. The original question was about manually entering the transactions - not importing anything. Hence, my original answer. Short of importing your transactions to something else first, or processing

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-12 Thread elvis
On 12/11/18 2:56 am, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 11/11/2018 6:23 AM, elvis wrote: Seriously? Are you just telling someone to type stuff stuff in? The WHOLE point of computers is to automate stuff. What if they have 1000 transactions? At a minute a transaction that a whole day

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-11 Thread elvis
On 12/11/18 12:08 am, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Calm down. The business features are the better route certainly. And if you have 1000 transactions, then the even better route is to use some other software to generate a CSV to import. On that scale, probably a point of sale system that

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/11/2018 6:23 AM, elvis wrote: Seriously? Are you just telling someone to type stuff stuff in? The WHOLE point of computers is to automate stuff. What if they have 1000 transactions? At a minute a transaction that a whole day entering stuff that could be in under a SECOND I

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Calm down. The business features are the better route certainly. And if you have 1000 transactions, then the even better route is to use some other software to generate a CSV to import. On that scale, probably a point of sale system that integrates with GnuCash via python and/or a MySQL

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-10 Thread elvis
Hi Christian I had a python program written for me to insert the 10% gst into a qif file download, I reckon it has saved me thousands of hours of manual entry over the last 10 years. If you are interested I can send you a copy. It's not perfect but it does the job. Lawrence On 11/11/18

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Chris, If for some reason you don’t want to use the business features and prefer to enter transactions manually, the auto-fill feature helps greatly for this case. I enter all of my cash expenses with a separate sales tax split. (I’m not in a VAT locale, this is ‘in addition to’ sales tax) The

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-10 Thread Christian Kluge
Hi, Am 10.11.2018 um 22:09 schrieb CHRISTOPHER PEARCE: > Hello all, > > I would like Gnucash to automatically create a split transaction for sales > tax when a taxable product is bought/sold. I deal with a lot of > transactions, and its a pain to manually enter the sales tax for each one. > I'd