I think about the only way you could do it using Gnucash would be to add a series of sub-accounts that are specific to each service that you provide, and then post each bill for a service to the appropriate account.
Then you could use the existing reporting available in Gnucash to show the breakdown of each service via the account structure. I'm in a similar situation as you - using Gnucash to maintain the books for a not-for-profit association. But in my case we have a wide variety of products we sell and they change seasonally, so there's simply not enough time in the day to keep up. We use a Point-of-Sale system to record all our sales to our members called Lettuceshare - (www.lettuceshare.org) - all sales are entered at our "checkout" and then I summarise the data and import invoices into Gnucash once a quarter. So can use this system for sales analysis rather than Gnucash. It could potentially work for you too.... Cheers - Nelson On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 8:04 AM, <fellowtrave...@comcast.net> wrote: > Michael: > > Thanks for the reply. I have to say, I was thinking this would be a > natural function of business accounting software but I see your point about > the bulk. This is a function I am currently looking into for a non-profit. > Basically, we receive invoices for services which I’ve been inputing as > bills into the AP register. The invoices of course could contain any number > of services, many of which are common. What we’d like to be able to do is > to create reports that might say, these are the top 5 services that were > preformed in 2016 and how many of each there were. I’d prefer to only have > to enter this data once, so I was hoping that GC would have the > functionality but I am finding out that this might be outside the scope of > any accounting type of software. > > Would you be able to suggest an approach, a tool, that might compliment > GC? Or is this just going to have to be something totally different? > > Thanks. > > > > > On Oct 16, 2017, at 9:17 AM, Mike or Penny Novack < > stepbystepf...@dialup4less.com> wrote: > > > > On 10/15/2017 10:08 PM, DaveC49 wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> The facilities you are requesting are likely to require an inventory > >> management system. At present Gnucash is an accounting package and > currently > >> does not incorporate any features for inventory management. As far as i > know > >> there are no plans to incorporate such features in the near future. To > do so > >> would reuire a developer(s) interested in developing these features. > >> Similarly while it can handle the accounting specific side of payroll > >> management it does not handle the calculation of payrolls, deductions, > taxes > >> etc. You may need to took at ERP software if you require these > facilities. > >> > >> David Cousens > > > > I am going to point something out. Gnucash is an accounting package. A > business might need a number of OTHER packages that would interact with the > accounting package, but normally are separate parts. Why separate? Because > which of these other parts a business might want/need depend on the > business. A unified business application (including ALL the different > possible pieces) would be unnecessarily bulky, with a given business never > using many of those pieces. > > > > inventory -- only if the business HAS inventory that it sells > > payroll ------ only if the business has employees (employees in the > legal sense of that word) > > billed time -- only of a business deals in "billable hours" > > POS --- only if a business does this kind of retail << point of sales > not only interacts with accounting but also inventory >> > > etc. etc. etc. > > > > Since I do accounting just for non-profits, I am aware of OTHER "pieces" > that would apply to this specialty. Just because I may be using gnucash to > provide these pieces does NOT mean "part of gnucash" << I am simply ALSO > using gnucash to implement "virtual books" for those specific pieces >> > > > > Michael D Novack > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > 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 > 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 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.