Hi, On Mon, January 10, 2022 6:22 pm, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > > >> Exactly.. So you don't know how the features work. > And that might actually be an advantage >> GnuCash has a chargeback feature that allows you to select items from a >> vendor bill and automatically charge them back to a customer. Selected >> line-items from the bill to auto-populate into the invoice(s) for that >> customer (until you select them to apply to a specific invoice). >> >> This works great if there is a 1:1 mapping of vendor bill -> customer, >> because you can only assign a SINGLE Customer to the Bill. > > Ah yes, but how did we get to this single bill? Where did this bill get > separate lines? > > In other words, let's change this slightly. The farrier comes to my > stable and shoes three horses, my horse and the horses of two of my > customers << I am boarding horses >>. The farrier didn't give me an > invoice with separate lines for horse a, horse b, and horse c. She gave > me an invoice with a single line; shoed three horses, $X
That was not my reading from the OP -- my reading is that the farrier left an invoice with three line items, one for horse A, one for B, and one for C. > In other words, it looks to me that what is described below comes from > MY creating a bill with those separated into separate lines and I > suppose the objection about what is lacking is the ability to do that > rather than merging three separate bills. > > And the example we are working with is simple (I mean the invoice from > the vendor). It could be far more complex, have "lines", but those not > corresponding to a customer. Thus from the vendor an invoice for: > > 12 type A widgets @$10 $120 > > 8 type B widgets @$5 $40 > > 3 type C widgets @&17 $51 > > ---------- > > $211 > > NOW --- of these, 4 of the type A widgets are to be charged back to > customer #1 and 5 to customer #2 and 3 to inventory > > 6 of the type B widgets are to be > charged back to customer #1 and 2 to customer #2 > > 2 of the type C widgets are to be > charged back to customer #1 and one to inventory > > So obviously I'd have to be doing the breaking up, into lines if not > separate bills.. BUT don't I also want to wend up with something that > bears some resemblance to what arrived? In other words, if this WERE > done as three bills that were then merged into a "vendor job" what does > that look like? It looks like three vendor bills, one to "Ferrier Job <date>" with a line-item of "Shod Horse A", one with a line-item of B, and one with a line-item of C. The only benefit of using a Job is to tie the bills together by something *other* that the post date and the Ferrier vendor. > Michael D Novack > -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ 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.