Geoff, I believe that the business features allow tracking by vendor *without* using the multiple accounts you mention. Others might be able to confirm this better than I, though.
David T. On Sep 11, 2024, 3:15 AM, at 3:15 AM, Geoff Jankowski via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >Hi Heidi, > >You should really use reply all and not individual addresses so that >the entire thread is visible on the mailing list as others may offer >better solutions. > >In order to generate the bill you must have created at least one vendor >so that part looks to be OK. > >If you have multiple vendors to manage you might want to consider a >separate sub-account for each under the main Accounts Payable account >to enable easier tracking of their invoices (bills). > >If when you try to post the bill the A/C Payable line is blank and >nothing comes up when you click on the dropdown list it is because GC >is not seeing a valid A/C Payable account. > >Go to the Accounts listing and find your A/C Payable entry. Right >click and select “edit account”. This will open the dialog box for >that account. At the bottom, is the box called “Placeholder” ticked? > >If it is, this is your problem. A/C Payable in Placeholder mode does >not accept entries it just acts as a totaliser of all the sub accounts >below it. > >If this is the problem you either: > >A Untick it and use that one account as the only A/C Payable account. >This will force all your payment liabilities into the one account which >is not good for analysis of individual accounts or for multi currency >operations. > >Or > >B Set up a sub account under the Placeholder account for each of your >vendors and make sure that the Placeholder box is not ticked for the >sub accounts. They will then appear in the posting dialog box >correctly. > >Let us know how you get on buy posting your reply to the >gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> mailbox. > >Hope this solves your problem. > > >Geoff Jankowski >+44 20 7100 1092 >+44 7770 58 48 38 >+33 9 85 20 68 20 >+33 6 22 93 00 53 > > > > > > > >> On 10 Sep 2024, at 15:14, halatch1008 <halatch1...@comcast.net> >wrote: >> >> GEOFF, >> Under Liabilities is sub account Accts.payable in my Chart of Accts. >> HEIDI >> >> >> >> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Geoff Jankowski <geoff.jankow...@me.com> >> Date: 9/10/24 6:44 AM (GMT-05:00) >> To: Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> >> Cc: Heidi Latch <halatch1...@comcast.net>, gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> Subject: Re: [GNC] need help with Vendor post bill >> >> Heidi, >> >> Have you set up both your vendor and the accounts payable account ? >I use a separate sub-account payable for each vendor. >> >> Geoff >> +33 6 22 93 00 53 >> +44 7770 58 48 38 >> >> > On 9 Sep 2024, at 04:30, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > Do you have an account of type A/Payable? >> > And is it the correct currency, that matches your vendor currency? >> > -derek >> > Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. >> >> On September 8, 2024 19:47:22 Heidi Latch via gnucash-user ><gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> When I'm ready to Post my vendor bill, where it says "Do you >really want to post invoice" It says, post date, due date, description. >Where it says "POST TO ACCOUNT", "Liabilities: Accts Payable" is >suppose to default coming up. It is blank. When i push the little >arrow, nothing comes up?? When i try to ignore it "No account >selected"comes up. Please help, I cannot post any expenses until this >gets corrected. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Heidi >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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. > >_______________________________________________ >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.
