> I want to use beancount to maintain customers and vendors, and so want to
be able to allocate payments to invoices (and, by extension, use it to
reconcile bank accounts).
> I'm not sure if this has been solved - I couldn't find anything relating
to it on Google.
> In essence, this would mean that each transaction has a record showing
how much of the transaction has been posted and to where.
> For example, a payment of £20 against an invoice of £30 would have a
record on both the invoice transaction and payment transaction showing £20.
The payment is then fully allocated but the invoice is only partly
allocated. This would allow reports to show that £10 was left.
> Perhaps this could be done with tags? Has this been solved previously?
Easy.
; -*- mode: beancount -*-
plugin "beancount.plugins.auto_accounts"
2016-09-01 * "Invoicing client A" ^invoice-00000001
Assets:AccountsReceivable:ClientA 30.00 GBP
Income:Work:Services
2016-09-20 * "Invoicing client B" ^invoice-00000002
Assets:AccountsReceivable:ClientB 40.00 GBP
Income:Work:Services
2016-10-01 * "Invoicing client A" ^invoice-00000003
Assets:AccountsReceivable:ClientA 12.00 GBP
Income:Work:Services
2016-09-20 * "Client A" "Payment for invoice" ^invoice-00000001
Assets:AccountsReceivable:ClientA -20.00 GBP
Assets:Checking
You can view how much your liability from this client is, over all invoices:
bean-query stalbansrfctreasurer.beancount "select sum(position) where
account = 'Assets:AccountsReceivable:ClientA'"
sum_posit
---------
22.00 GBP
Or you can produce this for each of your clients in one go:
bean-query stalbansrfctreasurer.beancount "select leaf(account) as client,
sum(position) as balance where account ~ 'Assets:AccountsReceivable' group
by 1"
client balance
------- ---------
ClientB 40.00 GBP
ClientA 22.00 GBP
Finally, if you'd like to isolate that particular invoice, use links or
tags to segregate all the transactions for a particular invoice:
bean-query stalbansrfctreasurer.beancount "select date, description,
position, balance where account ~ 'Assets:AccountsReceivable:ClientA' and
('invoice-00000001' in links) "
date description position balance
---------- ------------------------------ ---------- ---------
2016-09-01 Invoicing client A 30.00 GBP 30.00 GBP
2016-09-20 Client A | Payment for invoice -20.00 GBP 10.00 GBP
If you invoice payments are always for the total amount owed, you may be
able to write a plugin which automatically pairs them up with tags.
See this plugin for some ideas:
https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/ac55a614f17e75573832337a30c5e11be9c1d5c1/src/python/beancount/plugins/tag_pending.py?at=upload_using_v4_sheets_api&fileviewer=file-view-default
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> I want to use beancount to maintain customers and vendors, and so want to
> be able to allocate payments to invoices (and, by extension, use it to
> reconcile bank accounts).
> I'm not sure if this has been solved - I couldn't find anything relating
> to it on Google.
> In essence, this would mean that each transaction has a record showing how
> much of the transaction has been posted and to where.
> For example, a payment of £20 against an invoice of £30 would have a
> record on both the invoice transaction and payment transaction showing £20.
> The payment is then fully allocated but the invoice is only partly
> allocated. This would allow reports to show that £10 was left.
> Perhaps this could be done with tags? Has this been solved previously?
> Thanks
> Paul
>
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