Hi Chris, I, too, enter the receipts immediately. If I buy something online, it's actually exactly the same time as the purchase. If it's a real store, it gets entered once I'm home. Having it default to "today" is the right answer for me.
Michael On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 5:23 PM Chris Skudder <cskud...@earthlink.net> wrote: > FWIW, I'm another who enters most txn's on the same day I make them. > IMHO, one of the great and beautiful advantages of GnuCash over > Quickbooks Online (which I must use to do our church's accounts) - is > that GC opens basically instantaneously. There's no network latency, no > login, no "let's make sure it's really you" and "let's verify your cell > number," no clicking thru "Don't you want to sign up for our payroll > service, and our credit card processing service" and Lord knows what > else, before I can do what "I" want to do, versus what Intuit wants me > to do. > For me, I can open the computer from standby, open GnuCash, enter the > txn, and stash the receipt "off the deck" somewhere, quite a bit faster > than try to find receipts later, find time, remember what they're for, > + etc. > Realizing everybody's different ... but my own 1 vote is to keep the > date default "today", or at least to give a user the OPTION to default > txn dates to today. > So hooray for open source software, and for the talented and dedicated > peep's who do the coding that I don't know how to do. > Thank you to you all. > Chris > __________________________________________________________________ > > From: [1]gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2022, 12:00 PM > To: [2]gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 237, Issue 113 > > On 12/28/2022 11:11 AM, R Losey wrote: > > That would be an interesting poll (about when one enters data) > > References > > 1. mailto:gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org > 2. mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
