Re: [GNC] How can I refund this payment through PayPal, using business feature?

2022-12-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 23:42, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Just un-post, edit and re-post. Still work, but no need to start over. > Since the accounts were not set up optimally, I'd rather just delete them, and start again. There are less than a dozen entered. >

Re: [GNC] How can I refund this payment through PayPal, using business feature?

2022-12-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/21/22 5:04 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 21:39, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: I don't see why you went through the trouble of steps 2-4. Thank you. I showed my accountant my proposed layout and he didn’t comment. Maybe he didn’t notice

Re: [GNC] How can I refund this payment through PayPal, using business feature?

2022-12-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 21:39, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I don't see why you went through the trouble of steps 2-4. Thank you. I showed my accountant my proposed layout and he didn’t comment. Maybe he didn’t notice. I will remove those accounts and start enter

Re: [GNC] How can I refund this payment through PayPal, using business feature?

2022-12-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't see why you went through the trouble of steps 2-4. I suppose if you managed to get back to zero, no harm no foul, but I'd anticipate you're going to have a big mess in the future with that setup. AP is usually one bucket - for all payables. GnuCash tracks each vendor for you, and neit

Re: [GNC] How can I refund this payment through PayPal, using business feature?

2022-12-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I think I have achieved this with two reversing transactions, done in the following order. 1) Credit: Liabilities:Accounts Payable:PayPal Debit: Expenses:Postage and Delivery That makes the balance on Liabilities:Accounts Payable:PayPal -*£1 * 2) Debit: Liabilities:Accounts Payable:PayPal Credit

[GNC] How can I refund this payment through PayPal, using business feature?

2022-12-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I'm trying to work out how to refund a payment, made to a vendor (Royal Mail) using PayPal to pay for this. The attached file is very similar to the standard business accounts, with the bare minimum of changes needed to demonstrate my problem. The only real changes I have made are 1) Added a Pay