Rich, How are you creating the payment of the Bill?
If you open the Bill and then use the payment icon in the Toolbar (no need to search for the bill to pay) or alternatively use the Business->Vendor->Process Payment and search for the Bill by Vendor and select the Bill the transactions for the invoice and payment all appear in the Accounts Payable. They are not physically linked in any way and invoices posted on the same day all appear before payments on the same day. If the invoice and payment are not posted on the same day, the may not be anywhere near each other in the Accounts Payable register list. (A nice feature perhaps would be the ability to jump to view the associated invoice from either the payment or the transaction associated with the invoice just as you can jump to the register of another split in the transaction which would help tracking down which transactions and invoices are linked and also perhaps jump from an Invoice/Bill to the transactions in A/R and A/P associated with the Bill and Payments to that bill). If the payment is created as above, the Ref column contains the Bill Id Number of the associated Bill. In my early days using GnuCash business features I managed to get bills associated with the wrong payments and it was quite tricky working out what bill was associated with what payment where they are posted on different days. In the end I deleted the payments and then reentered them from the correct bills. I am using a default CoA in a test business file in which Accounts Payable appears directly under Liabilities i.e. Liabilities:Accounts Payable and the account type spefcified in the Edit Account dialog (right click on the account in the account tree and select Edit Account) is of Type A/Payable. I noticed that your account is under Liabilities:Current Liabilities:... It may be possible that either the account type is not set at A/Payable particularly if you created the account yourself rather than using one of the pre generated account structures. I have noticed in the past that the business features are very sensitive to the setup of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and won't function correctly otherwise. As far as I know there can only be one of each file type for A/R and A/P in the CoA (post from Derek several years ago when I experimented with creating separate accounts payable for each vendor - didn't work). I don't think there are any limitations on where A/R and A/P can be located in the CoA structure under Liabilities as long as it is of the correct account type but I am less sure of that and haven't determined whether that is the case. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.