Jonathon, The customer information is separate from any account information. It is not generally necessary to have an account for each customer that you have as the customer information can be linked to a specific transaction to an account. An account in Gnucash is a register which records the movement of funds. They may be associated with actual bank accounts for example or also with categories of information that you require either for business management and/or reporting purposes.
1. Menu->Business->Customer Overview should give you a liost of all customers which can be sorted by any of the column including the customer name. ( it is set as a company name, but you would use th customers name). 2. My understanding of the business account structure is that Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable only have a single account for each currency you use and cannot have sub-accounts. To meet your requirment, you would likely have to raise two invoices for each transaction with a customer, one for their personal billing and a second for billing their insurance. This would probably require you to have two customer listing associated with each physical customer name, e.g. Davy Jones personal information Davy Jones Insurance information (you could use the insurance company details as the billing address in this case). It will be fairly difficult to get rate information to come up automatically in GnuCash. To use GnuCash as it is intended you shouldn't have to have any detailed experience as a developer. It is useful to have some computing skills if you wish to customize it more to your specific needs. Apart from the initial account heirarchy setup this would mainly involve customizing reports to meet your needs. This can involve programming in Scheme ( A LISP language implementation) and using CSS stylesheets to style the reports. Using the database backends will require some expertise in database management, particularly for making backups replicating databases and fixing things when there are problems with a database. Sqlite3 is the easiest option for users with limited database experience. GnuCash is not a full database product in that it doesn't allow simultaneous access by multiple users which is one major reason people generally want database applications. GnuCash automatically produces backupsin the directory in which you store the books, i.e. on the computer you have GnuCash running on. If that computer fails, you have a serious problem. In addition you would want to backup to either another computer, a Network storage device and/or preferrably to an offsite location as well. If your computer has an adequate backup system in place it may already cover these needs. David Cousens Gnuca ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
