The payment amount must be greater than zero

2007-08-19 Thread Graham Leggett
Hi all, I have been trying to make a note of a refund paid back from a vendor, and am trying to make a payment with a negative amount, but I get the error message: you must enter the amount of the payment. The payment amount must be greater than zero If you can't add a refund this way, is

Re: The payment amount must be greater than zero

2007-08-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Create a new Vendor Bill; or unpost the previous vendor bill and put it there. At this point in time GnuCash does not support Credit memos (I guess this would be a Debit memo from a vendor). -derek Quoting Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I have been trying to make a note of a

Re: The payment amount must be greater than zero

2007-08-19 Thread Graham Leggett
Derek Atkins wrote: Create a new Vendor Bill; or unpost the previous vendor bill and put it there. At this point in time GnuCash does not support Credit memos (I guess this would be a Debit memo from a vendor). In this case, the vendor credited an invoice on a credit card, so unposting the

Re: The payment amount must be greater than zero

2007-08-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Derek Atkins wrote: Create a new Vendor Bill; or unpost the previous vendor bill and put it there. At this point in time GnuCash does not support Credit memos (I guess this would be a Debit memo from a vendor). In this case, the vendor credited

Re: The payment amount must be greater than zero

2007-08-19 Thread Graham Leggett
Derek Atkins wrote: Unfortunately it's not THAT simple. From the UI, yes, but there are underlying assumptions that the UI is helping enforce. Entering a negative amount would break those underlying assumptions. What underlying assumptions? All cashflows can flow in either direction for

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 Account Types?

Re: The payment amount must be greater than zero

2007-08-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Derek Atkins wrote: Unfortunately it's not THAT simple. From the UI, yes, but there are underlying assumptions that the UI is helping enforce. Entering a negative amount would break those underlying assumptions. What underlying assumptions? All

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 of the

SLR bug in 2.2?

2007-08-19 Thread Tim Wunder
In 2.0.x, if the Since Last Run druid is canceled at any time, all transactions are canceled. In 2.2 it seems that if you cancel the SLR after reviewing the created transactions, the auto created transactions are not canceled (and the book gets dirtied). Is this intended behavior? It strikes