Caleb, Just a word of caution.
Certainly, not all transactions need to go through the business features and you can make manual transactions to accounts other than the built-in AR/AP accounts. However, don’t make manual transactions in or to these accounts either. If you do, the business features can’t ‘see’ them. They can only see transactions created via the business features themselves. If you would need to make AR/AP transactions in a manual fashion and no way around that, then the recommendation is to create additional AR/AP accounts such as ‘Other Accounts Receivable’ or ‘Other Accounts Payable’ and use those for such purposes. For example, I have some old debts that I didn’t want to enter the original bills and all payment history for. I created a liability account under a ‘Old Debts’ liability for each one. That way I can make manual payment transactions and still see the remaining balance for each. The business features aren’t aware of any of that activity, but my balance sheet report includes it. Also, using the business features, you CAN pay or receive to accounts other than AR/AP. Just select the account you want in the drop down when posting the invoice/bill. If there are no other options in the drop down yet, click the ‘new’ button and add a new liability/asset account. (this means it can’t have existed already) This will add a new account and allow it to be ‘seen’ by the business features. It should then be selectable in the future. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 8, 2017, at 3:11 AM, Maf. King <m...@chilwell.net> wrote: > > Hi Caleb, > > welcome to the list. Answers inline... > > On Thursday, 7 December 2017 17:56:18 GMT Caleb Walker wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I am trying to use GNUCash like I use Sage 100 understanding it is not as >> full featured as Sage but might be ok with another business I am starting. >> What I would like to do is make payments to something other than AP or >> receive invoices to something other than AR. Is that possible? > > Yes. if a transaction isn't a AP purchase, why would you shoe-horn it into > AP? EG. you buy something with cash. the transaction is Assets:CashOnHand -> > Expenses:Whatever, which you can record perfectly easily in GC. > >> One >> example, I made a payment to my landlord and part of it was a deposit which >> I would like to go into an asset account and the other part is rent which >> would go into an expense account. How do I do that with this software? > > You'd need a "split transaction", so £100 from Assets:Bank can be split to > any > other number of accounts - eg £30 to assets:landordDeposit, and £20 to > Sales:tax and £50 to expenses:rent > >> Another example, I received cash into the account that I would like to tie >> into an equity account to show owners startup capital. How do I easily get >> the money over there? Thank you for your help > > Assets:Bank <- Equity:OwnerCapital:CalebWalker would be one way. > > I suggest you give an hour or two to the tutorial & concepts guide at some > point which will cover these questions in more depth. See > http://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=guide > > Good luck with your new venture. > Maf. > > >> >> Caleb >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > -- > Maf. King > PGP Key fingerprint = 8D68 A91F 733B 2C1F 43B7 2B7C E591 E8E1 0DE7 C542 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
