I don't have this problem, but perhaps Fran might be interested. They're the OP on this thread.
Kind regards, Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 9:15 AM elvis <el...@dogonfire.com> wrote: > Hello Greg, > > I encountered this exact same problem. > > > The way bills are entered just does not scale for someone doing more > than home entry, or doing it because they love it. 50 mouse clicks to > record buying a Mars bar just isn't viable if you have more than a Mars > bar a week. > > > I have a small program that takes downloaded transactions from the bank, > munges the descriptions so the qif importer recognises the accounts and > also adds gst. Saves hours and hours a month. > > > > > On 10/10/20 9:37 pm, Greg Feneis wrote: > > Yes, but keep in mind that I don't purchase anything for resale. > > > > Kind regards, Greg Feneis > > (Pixel 3) > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 16:17 Fran_3 <mailbox0...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >> So Greg, you don't post any Bills to Accounts Payable? Electric & > Utilityered > >> bills. Rent or whatever? > >> > >> You just post the payments... is that what you are saying? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> > >> On Friday, October 9, 2020, 12:15:25 PM EDT, Greg Feneis < > >> mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> I don't use this process at all. Everything my business buys how on a > >> credit card. 🤷 > >> > >> Kind regards, Greg Feneis > >> (Pixel 3) > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 08:41 Fran_3 via gnucash-user < > >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Posting Bills allows you to keep track of AP and provides data to the > >>> Bills Due Reminder... > >>> However some routine expenses may just get paid without going through > the > >>> steps of creating and posting and paying a bill. > >>> For a small venture posting bills can require a lot of keyboard time... > >>> even duplicating a bill requires a number of steps, data entry, and > >> clicks > >>> and can eat up time if you have a bunch of them to do... > >>> Example, we have a couple of vendor from which we get 50+ to 100+ > charges > >>> per year. They each are on auto pay and are mostly for the same amount > >> per > >>> charge... but each charge is for a different thing... so descriptions, > >> due > >>> dates, etc are different for each item. > >>> (You can think of these as if they were an annual listing or service > >>> fee... one for each item.) > >>> I got reminded of this recently when we made an effort to enter/create > >>> Bills for the 100+ charges that were going to occur for Vendor-A over > the > >>> next 12 months... again, the big corporate vendor does not supply a > >> monthly > >>> Bill listing all charges for that month... the item fee comes up and > gets > >>> auto paid... so 100+ transactions per year for that one vendor. > >>> > >>> It is a lot less work to just enter each payment into the system as > >>> opposed to first creating a bill then posting a bill and then paying > the > >>> bill. > >>> How do you all choose which things to create Bills for and which things > >>> just Pay? > >>> Thanks. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> gnucash-user mailing list > >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >>> ----- > >>> 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 > >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists > >> for more information. > >> ----- > >> 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 > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > 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 > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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