I suggest you put your handyman in as a vendor. Then you can create a bill with long descriptions per item, and then pay the bill with a check. If you want to see what was paid, right click on the payment entry in the register and choose jump to invoice/bill. You can also run a vendor report.
Mar 3, 2024 18:39:49 Tim via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>: > The descriptions that I enter in GNU cash for split items get truncated. Is > there a way to change this or is this a hard limit? > > > > To provide some context, I pay a handyman to work on various projects. When > I write the check to pay him I split the amount among the various projects > (which correspond to line items on his timesheet)that he worked on to > allocated it to the different expense accounts associated with those > projects. I like to enter a fairly long description which includes things > like the date the work was done, the location, and a brief description of > what was done but GNU cash truncates it when producing reports or when I go > back and look at data that I entered earlier. > > > > Should I be setting up an account for the handyman in which the line items > of his timesheet would be entered as individual transactions which add up to > the amount he gets paid? I get the impression that I'm probably trying to > misuse GNU cash again as I was when I paid my credit card bills with long > split transactions. I was able to fix that by entering the transactions in > an account for the credit card and then having a single transaction from my > bank account to pay off the credit card. I'm not adept enough at accounting, > to put it mildly, to know if there's something analogous I should be doing > in this case. Can you explain it in a way that a newbie would understand? > > > > Thank you > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
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