This sounds like an overkill. I'd write the original purchase as: Asset:Bank -$430 Asset:GiftCard: $500 Expense:Rebates -$70
Whereby Expense:Rebates generally collects anything that was purchased at a discount, and I wish to record the original price as well as the discount. So, a discounted laptop could be recorded as: Asset:Bank -$900 Expense:Electronics $1000 Expense:Rebates -$100 Other strategies are valid. On 30 November 2017 at 23:11, Mariano, Adrian V. <adr...@mitre.org> wrote: > I bought a $500 gift card for $430 this week. I would like to add this to > gnucash as some kind of asset so that as I spend it, the correctly scaled > amount gets transferred to the expense account I use. In other words, if I > spend $100 from this account it's really only $86. > > I tried to do this by creating a security fund and then using the price > editor to set the price to 0.86. But when I insert a transaction from the > new account to an expense account, it doesn't apply the 0.86 factor. What > is the right way to do what I want to do? > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
