Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh dear, making me sorry I ever brought the issue up. Look, I'm not an > accountant but have worked on systems that have to record billings and > payments. > > Yes, some businesses do put "suspense" money into a separate bank > account (asset side

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Dan Widyono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Suspense" accounts are a user thing. GnuCash doesn't care, and >> indeed shouldn't care. You can Process Payment into a Suspense >> Account just as easily as you can Process Payment into a Checking >> Account. > > Is it useful to allow aliases for Acco

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-18 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
>>"Suspense" accounts are a user thing. GnuCash doesn't care, and >>indeed shouldn't care. You can Process Payment into a Suspense >>Account just as easily as you can Process Payment into a Checking >>Account. >> >> Is it useful to allow aliases for Account Types? Or to add a Suspense type

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-18 Thread Dan Widyono
> "Suspense" accounts are a user thing. GnuCash doesn't care, and > indeed shouldn't care. You can Process Payment into a Suspense > Account just as easily as you can Process Payment into a Checking > Account. Is it useful to allow aliases for Account Types? Or to add a Suspense type which is j

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-14 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, I'm sure you meant this in a constructive way, but even after reading this over several times over a couple days it still comes across as condescending. I'm SURE you didn't mean it that way, but honestly, I (and most of the GnuCash developers) have a lot of experience in software development.

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-11 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
> > > >Doing multiple non-consecutive invoices for the payment process would >be arbitrarily complex. At that point the real answer is a real >solution to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108570 > >In my business experience this disputing an invoice is extremely >rare, so I dont think tha

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-10 Thread Derek Atkins
"John Z. Bohach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, a drop down list for all that stuff would be great, like the combo > box idea, but for invoices, keep in mind it would still be nice to > select multiple non-sequential ones, hopefully the combo-box allows > that. Doing multiple non-consecuti

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread John Z. Bohach
On Thursday 09 August 2007 06:35:45 pm Josh Sled wrote: > "John Z. Bohach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But documentation enhancements aside, I think others have also > > expressed an interest in not always having to do a 'find ...' > > {invoice,customer,etc.} and just rather have a drop down li

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread Josh Sled
"John Z. Bohach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But documentation enhancements aside, I think others have also expressed > an interest in not always having to do a 'find ...' > {invoice,customer,etc.} and just rather have a drop down list show > everything for that category, but that's getting of

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread John Z. Bohach
On Thursday 09 August 2007 04:29:33 pm Nathan Buchanan wrote: > Hi John, > > On 8/9/07, John Z. Bohach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:23:54 pm Derek Atkins wrote: > > > Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices > > > in FIFO order. If you select

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread Nigel Titley
John Z. Bohach wrote: > On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:23:54 pm Derek Atkins wrote: >> Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices >> in FIFO order. If you select an invoice in the process payment >> dialog (you dont have to! it's completely optional) then it puts >> that invoi

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread Nathan Buchanan
Hi John, On 8/9/07, John Z. Bohach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:23:54 pm Derek Atkins wrote: > > Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices > > in FIFO order. If you select an invoice in the process payment > > dialog (you dont have to! it's c

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread John Z. Bohach
On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:23:54 pm Derek Atkins wrote: > Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices > in FIFO order. If you select an invoice in the process payment > dialog (you dont have to! it's completely optional) then it puts > that invoice at the front of the FIFO,

Re: Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread Derek Atkins
Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this. It will pay the invoices in FIFO order. If you select an invoice in the process payment dialog (you dont have to! it's completely optional) then it puts that invoice at the front of the FIFO, but any overpayment will then spill over to the next one in the li

Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

2007-08-09 Thread John Z. Bohach
Hello, I am a programmer, even did some Scheme work way back in the old days (loved programming in Scheme...) of TI-Scheme on a IBM-DOS box. Judging from some of the comments on the gnucash-users mailing list, my own experiences, and reality, it is quite often the case that a customer will sen