Re: [GNC] check printing

2024-04-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Back in the day, I worked at Xerox. We had special MICR toner that worked with some of our printers. Once I changed banks and they printed a stater set of personalized checks complete with the MICR Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 5, 2024, at 2:50 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > 20 or so years ago

Re: [GNC] How can I book Sales when invoice is paid vs when posted?

2024-03-03 Thread R. Victor Klassen
What you want is cash accounting and Gnucash is set up for accrual based accounting. In our jurisdiction certain businesses are permitted to use cash accounting for income tax (and there are, for some, advantages to doing so) but all businesses are required to use accrual accounting for

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash not performing math functions correctly on entry [SOLVED]

2023-12-01 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Years ago - like in the 60s and 70s, there were adding machines - things that were replaced with what we now call calculators - that had a ‘feature’ - in some case the only mode of operating - that the decimal point was assumed two to the left of the last digit. This was a great time saver -

[GNC] Linking credit notes

2023-11-08 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Morning all, I have an invoice from August that was generated in error, but because it included tax which is reported quarterly my options do not include unposting it. (Not that that would be best practice from an accounting POV). So I generated a matching credit note which automatically got

Re: [GNC] Should GNUCash allow a split to reference the same account twice

2023-07-20 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Just to add one more instance, the business features, regularly do this, when entering a bill or invoice. 10 items on an invoice/bill could correspond to as many as 10 different income/expense accounts, or as few as one. Once the transaction has been posted, (one transaction per

Re: [GNC] In Praise of Excellent Features

2023-06-04 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I would add, a few versions back we had a change to how account names are filled in/suggested. I understood the feature would let me type Greenhouse:Tom in order to get Income:Produce Sales:Greenhouse:Tomatoes which is better than the old Income:Produce Sales:Greenhouse:T filling in

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread R. Victor Klassen
What works for me is just selecting the contents of the report and doing copy. Then opening a spreadsheet and doing paste Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2023, at 12:41 PM, Brook Milligan wrote: > >  >> On Mar 24, 2023, at 10:35 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> &

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I use a transaction report for what you seek. With the right options I get the account, date, description and amount. Copy paste the result into a spreadsheet Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2023, at 12:30 PM, Michael or Penny Novack > wrote: > >  >>> The end of the UK Tax Year

Re: [GNC] Demo accounts

2023-02-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I would start by exporting some of your own stuff to .csv That will tell you what the native GNUCash csv input format looks like. Now you can go to a spreadsheet and create transactions to your heart’s content using dates that are based on formulae (like every 14 days put in the same

Re: [GNC] Entered Date, UX Question

2023-02-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
For the business features there is the entered date and the posted date, and they may differ in either direction. That way I can enter something in January, but post in last December because it really belonged then, but I hadn’t gotten to it, and it shows up correctly under the rules accrual

Re: [GNC] Best way to link an overpaid invoice and credit note?

2023-02-03 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Enter the new invoice without the credit. When you go to pay it, you will find it offers the reduced amount. But first change the other one manually at the transaction where it is coming out of your bank Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 3, 2023, at 1:43 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: > > I

Re: [GNC] Strange crash (macOS specific)

2023-02-01 Thread R. Victor Klassen
>> On Jan 30, 2023, at 11:43 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> >> Twice now I’ve had a totally new failure mode. For whatever reason Gnucash >> crashes and then when I reopen it crashes faster than I can say jack >> Robinson. Looking in the crash report it is failing t

Re: [GNC] Strange crash (macOS specific)

2023-01-30 Thread R. Victor Klassen
> >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 1:43 PM R. Victor Klassen >> wrote: >> Twice now I’ve had a totally new failure mode. For whatever reason Gnucash >> crashes and then when I reopen it crashes faster than I can say jack >> Robinson. Looking in the crash repor

[GNC] Strange crash (macOS specific)

2023-01-30 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Twice now I’ve had a totally new failure mode. For whatever reason Gnucash crashes and then when I reopen it crashes faster than I can say jack Robinson. Looking in the crash report it is failing to satisfy itself with the code signing and aborting. I reinstall and the problem is resolved.

Re: [GNC] reconcile dates

2023-01-07 Thread R. Victor Klassen
When I write a post dated cheque and the recipient cashed it prematurely, most banks these days don’t blink an eyelash. While rare, this is a case where a transaction dated after the reconciliation window needs to be included. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 7, 2023, at 5:29 PM, Gyle

Re: [GNC] Are accountants happy with CVS exports?

2023-01-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I do my own taxes (by hand). > On Jan 4, 2023, at 8:33 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 22:29, R. Victor Klassen <mailto:rvklas...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I generally export a transaction report with all (relevant) accounts > selected. I gen

Re: [GNC] Are accountants happy with CVS exports?

2023-01-04 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I generally export a transaction report with all (relevant) accounts selected. I generally do a select-all from the open report window and then paste it into OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc. That I can sort on any key I like - normally date within (sub)account, and run subtotals and look for

Re: [GNC] Inaccurate information about GnuCash at https://www.capterra.com/

2022-12-27 Thread R. Victor Klassen via gnucash-user
Interestingly, it claims GnuCash handles payroll, which is not actually a claim made by the developers/documentation. Some of us use GnuCash for payroll, but so far as I know, everyone that does it, uses an external program to calculate the deductions. It’s not super hard to do payroll for a

Re: [GNC] Changes: Macbook Pro

2022-12-26 Thread R. Victor Klassen via gnucash-user
Not entirely. I downloaded 4.13 and there are still some issues in that ilk: scrolling not working - neither with the scroll wheel on the mouse, nor by dragging the scroll bar; can’t get window focus unless I grab the top of the window and move it around a bit OpenOffice has

Re: [GNC] Trouble downloading OFX from Canadian Tire Bank

2022-12-17 Thread R. Victor Klassen
> > 0 > INFO > > > AUD > > 123456789 > 123456789012 > CHECKING > > > > DEBIT > 2022092200 > -999.96 > 808288 > Transfer to censored - Receipt censored > > > CREDIT > 2022092200 > 999.99 > 788899 > censore

Re: [GNC] Trouble downloading OFX from Canadian Tire Bank

2022-12-17 Thread R. Victor Klassen
; > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 9:34 AM R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> >> I just downloaded the monthly credit card statement as “Microsoft money” >> format which gave me a file with suffix ofx and header content that appears >> to be OFX. Importing it causes a prompt a

[GNC] Trouble downloading OFX from Canadian Tire Bank

2022-12-16 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I just downloaded the monthly credit card statement as “Microsoft money” format which gave me a file with suffix ofx and header content that appears to be OFX. Importing it causes a prompt and consistent crash. I tried trimming out all transactions but one and it still crashes. I’m assuming

Re: [GNC] Overflow menus in invoices/bills not working in latest release on MacOS Ventura

2022-12-12 Thread R. Victor Klassen
when using invoices and bills. In those cases the tool bar is so full I need to stretch the window to nearly covered the screen in order to get the post and pay icons. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 10, 2022, at 7:43 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > > Adrian has it right. I’m going t

Re: [GNC] Overflow menus in invoices/bills not working in latest release on MacOS Ventura

2022-12-10 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Adrian has it right. I’m going to restart and see if it’s transitory. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 10, 2022, at 1:07 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > John, > > It sounds like Victor is describing the ToolBar overflow 'menu'. > > I can get this menu when I narrow my window width such

[GNC] Overflow menus in invoices/bills not working in latest release on MacOS Ventura

2022-12-09 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I’ve not poked at it very long, but what I’m experiencing is if the window isn’t wide enough (my normal practice) there appears a menu on the right of the toolbar with (typically) one or more of Post, Unpost, Pay - possibly more. Normal behaviour is that I can select any of these by pulling

Re: [GNC] rounding of Invoice vs Accounts Receivable

2022-10-17 Thread R. Victor Klassen
We encounter the same problem in jurisdictions with tax computed after. Which is to say this problem is not unique to having tax-in pricing advertised. Where I see it is in bills where the GnuCash rounding differs from that used by the vendor. And it only happens when there are multiple line

Re: [GNC] Billing Terms Due Date is Ignored

2022-09-03 Thread R. Victor Klassen via gnucash-user
It is possible to associate terms with specific customers, so all invoices going forward default [for those customer(s)] to their terms. > On Aug 27, 2022, at 9:43 AM, Benjamin Soffer wrote: > > Never mind - I see what I am doing wrong. I am failing to select "terms" > when I create the

Re: [GNC] gncJobNextID in gncJob.c not in gncJob.h

2022-08-08 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Just out of curiosity, how does one determine those numbers? An SQL query? grep | wc on the xml? Some feature of gnuCash I’ve never discovered? > On Aug 8, 2022, at 3:54 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > On Mon, August 8, 2022 3:21 pm, Robert Simmons wrote: >>> Accounting systems primarily

Re: [GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash

2022-08-08 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Actually you can edit the suggested payment amount, and only “process” a partial payment. Then you can pay again, using Process Payment, and pay with a different account for the second payment. > On Aug 8, 2022, at 11:40 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I agree, this is already possible,

Re: [GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash

2022-08-07 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I routinely pay invoices from multiple accounts. We have pseudo customers for each farmers market we attend. After the market is done I create an invoice for the appropriate “customer “. I pay it twice. The first time with the amount that was paid by credit or debit card- to an account

Re: [GNC] Revisiting the pre-paid invoice (coupon, credit note)

2022-07-15 Thread R. Victor Klassen via gnucash-user
Pretty sure that’s been around for quite a few versions. I’ve been marking bills paid with Liabilities:Credit Card for as long as I’ve been using GnuCash (2012? 2013??) > On Jul 14, 2022, at 2:31 PM, Eric Hammond wrote: > > Hold the presses! > Just testing v4.11: It appears that it now

Re: [GNC] Revisiting the pre-paid invoice (coupon, credit note)

2022-07-14 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Pretty sure that’s been around for quite a few versions. I’ve been marking bills paid with Liabilities:Credit Card for as long as I’ve been using GnuCash (2012? 2013??) > On Jul 14, 2022, at 2:31 PM, Eric Hammond > wrote: > > Hold the presses! > Just testing v4.11:

Re: [GNC] Deleting an account

2022-05-20 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I think the OP did, very clearly, describe in words what they wanted. To whit, to combine the transactions held in the two children accounts into the parent account and remove those two sub-accounts. They achieved this, and noticed that there could be some improvement to the workflow, in

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation discrepancies

2022-04-12 Thread R. Victor Klassen
reset somewhere in the preferences. > > David > > >> On April 12, 2022 5:25:51 AM PDT, "R. Victor Klassen" >> wrote: >> I run into such issues once in every one or two blue moons. The starting >> balance is off. >> I’ve reconciled succe

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation discrepancies

2022-04-12 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I run into such issues once in every one or two blue moons. The starting balance is off. I’ve reconciled successfully the previous month, but something somehow (dis)appeared in the meantime. I assume it disappeared, although the symptoms could be generated by something appearing. I hope it’s

Re: [GNC] Directly posting payments

2022-02-21 Thread R. Victor Klassen
The telling phrase was “vendor summary “. I’m afraid if you want to be able the track expenses by vendor you need to open an invoice. The advantage is that you can set up the tax to automatically calculated. The disadvantage- well, you seem to encountered that already. Sent from my iPhone

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-31 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Happily, in Canada, Escrow is not nearly as common a practice as in the US. So that complication likely does not apply. But since this thread wandered off into the question of banks making money off the rounding (in Australia), there was a case in Canada - back in the 70s or 80s, as I

Re: [GNC] Adding late charges to a vendor bill after posting?

2022-01-30 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Not what the Canadian (Federal) taxing authorities do with payroll taxes. They have a separate account for arrears, and interest goes there as well. As far as I can tell, this is just to baffle the poor taxpayer, so if you ever get in arrears, you have to be sure to tell them the next payment

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-30 Thread R. Victor Klassen
My experience is that if I do interest compounded semi-annually, and the right payment frequency, the interest/principal breakdown still doesn’t match the bank’s, because they say compounded semi-annually on the mortgage documents, but then they calculate what the equivalent is and calculate it

Re: [GNC] Lodging a cheque to an a/c - 'cash in wallet'??

2022-01-17 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I generally use a two step process. First the cheque goes into “undeposited cheques”. And the appropriate income account is credited. Then when I make a deposit I may be depositing cash and multiply cheques in a single transaction with the bank account as destination. Sent from my

Re: [GNC] Question on Parent Accounts

2022-01-15 Thread R. Victor Klassen
1) Create the new account: presumably Expenses:Cost of Goods Sold 2) Optionally (recommended for parent accounts) make it a placeholder account 3) Edit any accounts that are to become children of this one. When you create or edit an account, there’s an option near the bottom of the pop-up to

Re: [GNC] Modify Invoice Template

2022-01-06 Thread R. Victor Klassen
And once you get one you like, save it. And then, find the default template on your file system and put your saved one there. > On Jan 6, 2022, at 10:17 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, January 6, 2022 10:01 am, Don Gray wrote: >> My invoices print with >> >> Thank you for your

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-06 Thread R. Victor Klassen
The only problem being if you want to send the invoice to your customer, it says “invoice in progress”. So I do find myself posting, printing, unposting (only around the end of the year) and re-posting as necessary. > On Jan 6, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Don Gray wrote: > > Rich and Victor, > >>

[GNC] Commission sales and business features

2022-01-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
We occasionally sell something through a third party acting in a broker role. Which is to say the item is never the possession of the party who does the sale - or at least not owned by them. When I do the invoice I do not know the actual customer so I create a pseudo customer as a stand-in.

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-04 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I normally re-post invoices to the 1st of the year if not paid before, and any bills that are due and paid after the year end I also post to the 1st. Rarely do I find something that needs to be moved the other direction (although it is possible, I just can’t think of an instance off hand).

Re: [GNC] MEMORIZING PAYEE ADDRESS

2022-01-02 Thread R. Victor Klassen
y file meets both conditions. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 1/1/22 7:03 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> I’m fairly certain you also have to be using the business features and have >> the payee listed as a vendor. >>> On Dec 28, 2021, at 5:32 PM, Adrien Monte

Re: [GNC] MEMORIZING PAYEE ADDRESS

2022-01-01 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I’m fairly certain you also have to be using the business features and have the payee listed as a vendor. > On Dec 28, 2021, at 5:32 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > What is your process? > > I first select the transaction, then go to File > Print Checks, and > everything is filled out

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2021-12-19 Thread R. Victor Klassen
What most people have found - and someone would be sure to say eventually - is that to get reports formulated exactly as you want them, you pretty much need to export them to a spreadsheet or even a word processor table, and manipulate them from there. GnuCash will handle the numbers, and

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread R. Victor Klassen
There are two kinds of expenses - current expenses and capital expenses (specific terms may vary). Capital expenses convert one asset (usually money) to another. Current expenses just deplete an asset (or increase a liability). In the case where you are converting money to inventory of

Re: [GNC] Can I add a customer and/or vendor to a previously entered transaction?

2021-12-12 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Normally the first transaction you would enter would be the payment, and then the refund later. Assuming you have a payment to associate, first create a “bill”. This is GnuCash-speak for an invoice received from a vendor. Put in it what you need, then “Post” it. Now you can go to the

Re: [GNC] how to handle temporary desk checks

2021-12-02 Thread R. Victor Klassen
This is not really a GnuCash problem - as far as the program is concerned, you can have as many instances of as you like. So it depends on how you use the number. If you write a, b, c etc beside the number when they get used, and you either get them or their images returned, you can

Re: [GNC] Processing a customer payment

2021-10-23 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Assuming you have created the invoices using the “Business Features”, you go to Business->Customer->Process Payment, select the customer, and select both invoices. If they paid by a means that has a transaction number (check, credit card transaction…) put that in the number field. Select your

Re: [GNC] Count Transactions

2021-10-16 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Someone may have a better way, but I would use the view->filter menu item to restrict it by date, then do an account report and copy it to a spreadsheet and count them there using the count function on one of the columns. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 16, 2021, at 6:53 PM, Joseph Hesse wrote:

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-15 Thread R. Victor Klassen
The OLD day? We still have a couple of vendors like that. Happily for us accrual accounting is their problem. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 15, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Michael or Penny Novack > wrote: > > Perhaps historical perspective might help, especially with businesses, > because might

[GNC] Search/report by description

2021-08-25 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I’m looking for a report or means of searching all bills/invoices for a specific pattern in the description field of any line. I would further like to restrict it (optionally) by date range or customer/vendor. For example I might want to know what we paid for whatsits last year and from

Re: [GNC] Check printing

2021-06-15 Thread R. Victor Klassen
have to > hand write those 7 checks. > Bruce > >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:51 AM R. Victor Klassen >> wrote: >> I have no experience with the three-part cheques, as the ones I use consume >> a full page (one third for the cheque, one third for each of the stu

Re: [GNC] Check printing

2021-06-14 Thread R. Victor Klassen
AM, Michael or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 6/14/2021 6:51 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> I have no experience with the three-part cheques, as the ones I use consume >> a full page (one third for the cheque, one third for each of the stubs). >> >>

Re: [GNC] GnuCash very slow to start up and quit

2021-06-14 Thread R. Victor Klassen
When I had speed problems it was much more extreme. I had been using SQLite. I switched to XML, and then switched back, and the effect of saving it in a different format, and reading it back was enough to make a dramatic improvement. There was something in the data file that made it slow,

Re: [GNC] Check printing

2021-06-14 Thread R. Victor Klassen
PM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > > What I would do under your circumstances is fill out all the details in the > register for the first one, duplicate transaction and edit the payee and > number fields, and so on until I had them all in the register. Then > command-p on the Ma

Re: [GNC] Check printing

2021-06-10 Thread R. Victor Klassen
What I would do under your circumstances is fill out all the details in the register for the first one, duplicate transaction and edit the payee and number fields, and so on until I had them all in the register. Then command-p on the Mac for each of them. It might be control-p on your

Re: [GNC] Question about Profit-Loss Report

2021-06-01 Thread R. Victor Klassen
In our jurisdiction farms are permitted to choose whether to use cash or accrual, and there are various tax advantages to using cash-based. Happily, December/January is the time of lightest business, so the difference isn’t huge when it comes to accounting. I do find I need to unpost and

Re: [GNC] Cut & Paste transaction problem

2021-05-04 Thread R. Victor Klassen
When that happens I just change the account in the offending register and when I hit enter, hey presto! the transaction disappears from that register. ….And appears in the one where it should. > On May 4, 2021, at 6:39 AM, Robert Stocker wrote: > > Yes, I'm sorry I didn't make that clear in

Re: [GNC] removing Appendix D; was:Chart of Account maintainers

2021-04-24 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I do. I suspect most North America-based users of the business features write cheques (checks in the US).It’s just a matter of volume whether it’s worth printing them. (I find it much easier to avoid missing recording them if they are recorded and then printed). > On Apr 23, 2021, at

Re: [GNC] Import invoices ~ tax table

2021-03-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Bingo. This has been hanging around for a long time since 99% of our sales are zero-rated. Automatically catching the other 1% will reduce the opportunity for errors and speed up the process. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 5, 2021, at 7:13 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > > I’m

Re: [GNC] Import invoices ~ tax table

2021-03-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
> > And here's a snapshot of my tax tables: > > > The loaded invoice looks fine in GN - the GST amount is correct and is > showing in the liabilities account as defined. > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Nelson Handcock > > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 20

Re: [GNC] Import invoices ~ tax table

2021-03-03 Thread R. Victor Klassen
021, at 2:50 PM, Nelson Handcock wrote: > > Hello, > > Try using "Y" in the Taxable column instead of "X" > > Regards, etc > > On Wed., 3 Mar. 2021, 02:40 R. Victor Klassen, <mailto:rvklas...@gmail.com>> wrote: > The documentation I’ve read

Re: [GNC] 4.4 slow

2021-03-03 Thread R. Victor Klassen
ote: > > On 2021-02-23 10:37, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > >> I tried check and repair and ran into an infinite loop in accts receivable >> and accounts payable. > > > Regarding that infinite loop: was there a voided transaction in those > accounts? > >

[GNC] Import invoices ~ tax table

2021-03-02 Thread R. Victor Klassen
The documentation I’ve read has me specify the tax table in column 15 (counting from 0) aka column P when the csv file is opened as a spreadsheet. When I put the three letters “HST” or the phrase “Harmonized Sales Tax”, both of which name sales tax tables, in that column, it is ignored. The

Re: [GNC] 4.4 slow

2021-02-23 Thread R. Victor Klassen
. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 8, 2021, at 10:50 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > > When I came in check & repair was in an infinite loop in accounts > receivable. > > The progress log shows it counting up to about 1000 out 6614 and then > restarting at 0. Not clear w

Re: [GNC] 4.4 slow

2021-02-08 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 5, 2021, at 3:30 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > 7 minutes is a lot. If it's still doing that after the C finishes then > please open a bug and attach a profile. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Feb 5, 2021, at 12:21 PM, R. Victor Klas

Re: [GNC] 4.4 slow

2021-02-06 Thread R. Victor Klassen
nitor? Better yet, do you know your way around Xcode well enough to get a >> time profile? >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >>> On Feb 5, 2021, at 9:57 AM, R. Victor Klassen >> wrote: >>> >>> I should also say I’m using the SQLite back end

Re: [GNC] 4.4 slow

2021-02-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
e? > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Feb 5, 2021, at 9:57 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> >> I should also say I’m using the SQLite back end. 90% or more of what I do >> passes though the business features. When I say entering an invoice line is >> s

Re: [GNC] 4.4 slow

2021-02-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I should also say I’m using the SQLite back end. 90% or more of what I do passes though the business features. When I say entering an invoice line is slow I mean that when I hit tab to get past the last entry and start a new one I sometimes see the spinning lollipop. Trying check and repair

[GNC] 4.4 slow

2021-02-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
So I finally decided to upgrade from 2.6.21, and downloaded 4.4 for Mac. I had read something about faster startup times. Well I am unconvinced about that part. But worse still, it regularly has long delays when entering lines in an invoice or posting it. I think I would have heard lots of

Re: [GNC] List of invoices

2021-01-30 Thread R. Victor Klassen
ter by dates; Sort by amount? > That will give you the invoice numbers -- then you can open and print > those invoices. > > -derek > > On Sat, January 30, 2021 10:50 am, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> Our taxing authority is doing something more than a rubber stamp and less >&g

[GNC] List of invoices

2021-01-30 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Our taxing authority is doing something more than a rubber stamp and less than a full audit of our HST (a.k.a VAT) for the last year. Among other things they are requesting our 10 largest invoices to different customers. Most of what we sell is zero-rated, meaning that there is no tax (food).

Re: [GNC] Commission sales

2021-01-15 Thread R. Victor Klassen
1 7:25 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> The mechanism looks like this: customer orders from our online store >> (typically) some items of ours and some of the neighbour’s. Branding is >> clear on the store. Twice a week we deliver orders. On that day or the one >> before, we

Re: [GNC] Commission sales

2021-01-15 Thread R. Victor Klassen
ainst an income account. (Dr. Sales-Payable, Cr. > Income:Commission) > This looks somewhat cleaner than having an expense amount that later gets re-characterized. Cleaner yet would be putting an income entry in a bill, but that’s not permitted. > > > > Regards, > Adrien

[GNC] Commission sales

2021-01-13 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Since early in the pandemic we’ve been selling some of our neighbour’s stuff, charging a few percent commission, mostly to cover credit card fees. Our income here is really just the commission since the end customer knows it isn’t ours and we aren’t providing any value add othe than

Re: [GNC] bulk operations?

2020-12-08 Thread R. Victor Klassen
The advantage of getting the invoices in a spreadsheet is that, as far as I can tell (haven’t tested this) you can put the whole string of invoices in one file. Each line in the file has a field for invoice number, and I believe if you change the number it creates an additional invoice. So if

Re: [GNC] cash basis and accrual basis

2020-10-22 Thread R. Victor Klassen
And further, if you’re working with the business features, you will need to post invoices with a post date matching the period in which payment is received. This may involve unposting and reposting. They have to be posted to print without the “invoice in progress…” notation, but then if you

Re: [GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

2020-09-10 Thread R. Victor Klassen
At least on the Mac, there’s no guarantee that it is physically written to disk immediately. I’ve experienced a handful of posted and printed invoices disappearing due to a power outage. Probably less likely to happen on a system with an SSD drive, as there’s not as much reason to wait to

Re: [GNC] Anyone noticing an issue with list messages 'un-threading'?

2020-01-07 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Yes. In fact it just happened with your latest reply to the “Chaning …” thread. > On Jan 7, 2020, at 2:08 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Starting in late December I noticed almost every subject is coming in as > separate threads at some point. > > An initial post is made, then a reply

Re: [GNC] Voucher checks?

2019-11-23 Thread R. Victor Klassen
And if you have them printed by gnucash you save the risk of what’s in the register differing from what got printed, which for me is worth a lot Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 23, 2019, at 2:52 PM, John Ralls wrote: > >  > >> On Nov 23, 2019, at 10:35 AM, Roderick Anderson wrote: >> >> Good

Re: [GNC] Print Report does not "page" properly

2019-10-07 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Because it is a problem wit WebKit, the workaround I use is to save it as HTML and then open it in a browser that handles it properly. Some do, some don’t. It’s an optional feature in the standard. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I

Re: [GNC] Gnucash not obtaining lock Solved

2019-09-14 Thread R. Victor Klassen
> On Sep 14, 2019, at 5:11 PM, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 9/13/2019 1:50 PM, Bob Hammons wrote: >> The trouble was Windows Defender in a recent update blocked Gnucash, >> Quicken and Open Office data directories. >> This was in the Ransom ware section >> Here is a website that

Re: [GNC] Gnucash not obtaining lock Solved

2019-09-14 Thread R. Victor Klassen
> On Sep 14, 2019, at 5:11 PM, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 9/13/2019 1:50 PM, Bob Hammons wrote: >> The trouble was Windows Defender in a recent update blocked Gnucash, >> Quicken and Open Office data directories. >> This was in the Ransom ware section >> Here is a website that

Re: [GNC] Gnucash bug

2019-07-08 Thread R. Victor Klassen
rtain > you’re accessing the current file and not a 5 day old backup. (usually the > case in threads where users find data ‘missing’) > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Jul 8, 2019, at 10:55 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> >> Perhaps this has been fixed. I’m usi

[GNC] Gnucash bug

2019-07-08 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Perhaps this has been fixed. I’m using 2.6.21 for production. Using SQLite I am expecting every transaction to hit disk immediately. Saturday we had a power failure and lost about five days’ worth of transactions including at least 10 invoices and three new customers. I think I can

Re: [GNC] How to treat benefit payments from government?

2019-04-19 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Both the Trillium benefit and the HST/GST credit are essentially refundable tax credits, except that are paid out either over a period of a year beginning some time after the filing deadline, or in a lump sum (but later). Unlike in the US where state tax refunds are income for federal

Re: [GNC] How to treat benefit payments from government?

2019-04-17 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I generally treat such payments as income, but as its own account. It isn’t taxable, or reportable, so if you care (i.e. if you are going to use your GnuCash data in filling in your income taxes, rather than, say downloading your T-slips), you want it segregated from other income. Then I can

Re: [GNC] Bills in Gnucash

2019-03-29 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Before you can do any of the below, you need to “enable business features”. I don’t run GnuCash on this machine, so I don’t know exactly where that is - something anyone only does once - but when you have done that you can create customers (who buy from you) and vendors (who sell to you), and

Re: [GNC] BUSINESS CHECK PRINTING - BILLS PAID INFORMATION ON STUBS

2019-02-28 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I know of no way to get that information automatically included. With the right format, you can get the name and address, and - if the information on the stubs is in the splits - the rest of the information more or less as shown. The lack of automation is in getting the information into the

Re: [GNC] SMTP TLS -- Re: Liabilities and Net Worth in Android app

2019-02-12 Thread R. Victor Klassen
It reachd the list. > On Feb 11, 2019, at 4:58 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > humming.b...@posteo.net writes: > >> Dear Derek, >> >> if this email reaches the list, then TLS is working. > > Considering you sent it to me *and* the list, I have no way to confirm. > My tests seem to imply it is

Re: [GNC] Impossible de faire une copie de sauvegarde pour le fichier /run/media/pierre/Stockage/Documents/oney 10/Compte Chicot (translated)

2019-01-21 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I think he said I’ve been using gnu cash for many years and have never had this problem. What do I need to do in order to allow me to save backups again? … Not that I have an answer to contribute. > On Jan 20, 2019, at 4:01 AM, Pierre Chaland wrote: > > J'utilise Gnucash depuis de très

Re: [GNC] Export Report to PDF - characters split across pages

2018-12-19 Thread R. Victor Klassen
… and then if that doesn’t work, switch browsers (for the purpose of printing/exporting to PDF). Some browsers ignore the optional tag that controls whether characters can be split across page breaks. Others don’t. > On Dec 19, 2018, at 7:46 AM, David Carlson > wrote: > > Michael, Try

Re: [GNC] How to handle a Square Transaction

2018-12-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
What I do for Square is basically the same. I am using invoices for the transactions involved. In fact, it’s more complicated, since a few customers at the farmers’ market will use square while the vast majority pay cash, and we treat the farmers’ market as a single virtual customer. So when

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 28, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > I hope you are going to be running Linux on the new machine. > > Colin Why? The iMac runs a Unix variant native. It’s called macOS > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list >

Re: [GNC] Inheritance of Cash

2018-10-12 Thread R. Victor Klassen
ll! Good to especially know that the tax had already > been paid before the final distribution. > > >> On 2018-10-12 8:44 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> Canada does not have inheritance tax. Presuming the executor got it right, >> the estate paid all its taxes before r

Re: [GNC] Inheritance of Cash

2018-10-12 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Canada does not have inheritance tax. Presuming the executor got it right, the estate paid all its taxes before releasing the last of the inheritance. I’m not sure what happens if the executor screws up and distributes too much before CRA has its final say on how much the estate owes

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