Hi people! Recently I've been noticing and using the "lots" feature a bit more, and I'm finding it quite handy after all.
For example, as a FOSS contributor I find myself attending some events
and being sponsored for it, or have some expenses on behalf of projects
(say, I could buy promotional items (stickers, shirts, etc)) and later
be reimbursed for them.
In those cases I don't really want to use an invoice (in which case I
could record a bill for the expense and "charge" it toward a given
client), as I'm not actually invoicing any clients and I don't really
want to have invoices in gnucash that don't actually exist also by the
national revenue agency
So, I created an account Assets:AR:ToBeReimbursed where I charge all the
expenses that I plan to ask reimbursement for. In that account I create
a lot for each reimbursement request collecting all related expenses (for
example, all expenses that I incur while going attending and coming back
from an event) and a final transaction crediting this account and
debiting a different AR account when sending off the actual
reimbursement ticket to whatever organization. The goal is that making
sure that the lot is zero-ed out.
Now, I suspect I could create a new account for each event (or whatever
I have to do), but I found that this "lots" feature makes more sense in
my mind, as its own goal is exactly to link together related expenses.
So, concluding: I'm not sure if I'm doing justice to the feature by
using it this way, but if I am, I can likely find more uses for it. As
such, I wonder if any of the developers have any further plan for it? I
don't really have any particular UX/UI in mind, besides some kind of
sign (colour?) in the transaction ledger that highlight how a particular
transaction is related to another. Perhaps with some extra report also
highlighting them?
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regards,
Mattia Rizzolo
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