Hi, If you want to use the GnuCash Invoice system then yes, you should create the invoice and then add the line-items to the invoice over time. Then, when you are ready you would post the invoice which adds those line-items into the CoA as your Income and A/R transaction.
-derek On Tue, July 29, 2025 10:52 am, Simon Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I fear this is one of those silly things where I'm doing (have done) this > wrong because I don't know what to look for in the manual. > > I have a (new) client that I/m doing a bunch of small jobs for. I added > each of them as a transaction in an Income account, and marked the "other > side" of the transaction as Accounts Receivable. This is what I've done in > the past for single jobs. But now I want to make a single invoice > enumerating all of these small jobs. > > How do I (or how should I have) associate these entries with the customer > and collect them as line items in a single invoice? When I go to make the > invoice, of course, I have to put all the entries in all over again (which > would screw the balance anyway). > > Do I have to create an invoice up front, and then add the individual joba > over the weeks, until I'm ready to send the invoice? I guess that would > work? Clearly I should have thought this through before I started, but > that's not the way life works when you want to move on with the revenue > generating stuff. Sigh. > > Any pointers to the efficient route (or the manual topic that describes > the > efficient route) will be very welcome! > > Cheers, > Simon > > > -- > Simon Roberts > 303 249 3613 > https://www.youtube.com/@DancingCloudServices > https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonhgroberts/ > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 [email protected] www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
