Just a further 0.02 on this.
generating a PDF in a folder gives you (with no extra work) a handy archive of
invoice documents actually generated. If you ever need to quickly refer to
one (or have the tax man come to visit), an archive of PDFs is IMHO quicker
than firing up GC and searching.
Gnucash can use SQLite and that works well. I set up what Cam Ellison
described for our football club, where I needed to send about 450
statements at the end of each month showing players how much they had paid
and how much they owed. Querying the SQLite database to create the
statements as pdf
Also an interesting idea. I'll keep that in mind and in the meantime make a
background task to investigate documentation on how one runs this against a
DB, and what makes any given DB compatible or not. I would be happy to run
it against something like Derby or MySQL. Well, any open source DB that
If you use GnuCash with a database, and have the coding skills, you
could generate whatever invoice you want, and convert and email it. This
would be straightforward in most cases, though not trivial. Access to
the database is not confined to GnuCash itself. Just the same, you'd
have to do it
If by 'directly' you mean from 'within GnuCash', no, you can't.
Since the customer's e-mail address can appear on the invoice in their
info block, you might be able to set up a script, possibly combined with
a folder 'watcher' that can automate e-mailing a resulting PDF from
printing the
Quot homines tot sententiae for sure; my clients seem quite happy with HTML.
That said, I don't *object* to pdf, but I would like to find a faster way
to send whatever I'm going to send. It's connecting it to email that I want
to simplify. If I can send pdf directly in email, with subject and
On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 00:23, Simon Roberts
wrote:
> Ah well, that's a bit sad, but not the end of the world (my business
> probably sends less than six invoices per month, often only one or two).
>
> The fastest manual route certainly seems to be do use the print dialog, and
> then copy/paste
Ah well, that's a bit sad, but not the end of the world (my business
probably sends less than six invoices per month, often only one or two).
The fastest manual route certainly seems to be do use the print dialog, and
then copy/paste from the resulting screen (that gets you an HTML paste that
Not that I'm aware of.
You could export or print to file for each invoice, then attach the
resulting document.
This is entirely a manual operation though.
You may want to investigate gnucash-cli, but I don't know if the
business features are exposed there.
A third option may be to script
We're getting to the point of preparing and sending invoices, and so far
things are seeming generally pretty clear, but I have one quick question.
Is it possible to integrate directly with a desktop email client for
sending invoices? It's not a big problem to copy / paste the HTML image
from the
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