Re: [GNC] Posting a bad debt

[Justin Haynes]

That’s an interesting idea and it keeps the money moving within the billing and 
accounts receivable side as Roger had requested.  Now that Roger mentions it, I 
remember now not seeing expense accounts to pay with. 

Roger is this the roundabout way you are doing it now?:  
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/busnss-ar-payment1.html#busnss-ar-baddebt
 
<https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/busnss-ar-payment1.html#busnss-ar-baddebt>

I suppose there is no way to do it within the invoice other than having a 
negative line item?  (I have not tried this).  Or a credit memo as Greg said.  


-Justin



> On Apr 9, 2019, at 3:21 PM, Greg Feneis  wrote:
> 
> In similar fashion, a favorite customer shorted me $0.50 on a timely big 
> invoice payment.  Rather than hassle them about $0.50, I created another 
> invoice, but as I was creating the invoice I selected credit memo instead of 
> invoice.  I made a credit memo for $0.50 for that customer and job.  Then I 
> opened the invoice that was $0.50 short and went to pay that invoice.  The 
> invoice with the $0.50 due appears as well as the credit memo for $0.50.  I 
> selected them both and finished the payment.  
> 
> If you went this way, perhaps you could set the account for the source of the 
> credit memo to an appropriate expense account?  I'm just a beginner, so what 
> I've done may not be allowed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Greg Feneis
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:03 PM mailto:rmom...@gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
> Justin,
> 
> That is the way you would do it by normal accounting rules as I understand
> them. However, you can't pay an invoice in GnuCash from an expense account.
> The only accounts available in the receive payment window are assets, equity
> and liability accounts. No income or expense accounts available therefore
> not allowed. I've done it in a round about way but never have been satisfied
> with the result. Keep looking for something better.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roger
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Justin Haynes  <mailto:jus...@justinhaynes.com>> 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 1:40 PM
> To: rmom...@gmail.com <mailto:rmom...@gmail.com>
> Cc: GnuCash mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Posting a bad debt
> 
> I think you have to pay it from an expense account like Expenses:BadDebt or
> wherever you want to record that expense.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Apr 9, 2019, at 1:21 PM, mailto:rmom...@gmail.com>> 
> > mailto:rmom...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > If you create an invoice that later becomes uncollectible, there is no 
> > way to charge it off to a bad debt expense account from within the
> invoice.
> > Suggestions?
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Re: [GNC] Posting a bad debt

[Justin Haynes]

I think you have to pay it from an expense account like Expenses:BadDebt or 
wherever you want to record that expense.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 9, 2019, at 1:21 PM,   wrote:
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> If you create an invoice that later becomes uncollectible, there is no way
> to charge it off to a bad debt expense account from within the invoice.
> Suggestions?
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Re: [GNC] whois lookup - gnucash.net

[Justin Haynes]

Gnucash User - (newslet...@msc0.com) -

Did you have a question for the list?

-Justin

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 2:26 PM Gnucash User  wrote:

> I see that apart from the gnucash.org domain, someone has registered a
> domain gnucash.net ... can anyone use the gnucash for their own
> second-level domain ?   That might be confusing to someone who is
> looking for gnucash, especially in the case of a well-established
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Re: [GNC] Bills in Gnucash

[Justin Haynes]

Gustav, try what Geert says.  You’ll need an Accounts Payable account under 
liabilities, and this is a standard accounting practice. 

When you create a new bill you post it, and it shows in Accounts Payable.  When 
you pay against that bill, it goes also to Accounts Payable.  The billing 
system keeps vendors and bills organized so you know how much you owe each 
vendor and for what.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 29, 2019, at 5:42 AM, Geert Janssens  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Gustav,
> 
> Welcome to gnucash!
> 
> It's not clear what you mean with "I don't have a way to log in a bill...". 
> Did you try
> Business->Vendor->New Bill... ?
> What exactly didn't work ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> Op donderdag 28 maart 2019 21:24:41 CET schreef Gustav Kriek:
>> Hi there
>> I'm new to using Gnucash and its also the first time I'm doing my own
>> books. I just started working for myself, and as sole proprietor I need to
>> keep better track of things.
>> Ive set up all of my accounts and brought everything up to date...took me
>> quite a few hours to be honest. I just realised I dont have a way to log in
>> a bill, see when its must be paid or indicate it has been paid. I presume I
>> didnt make the correct selection when I chose my hierarchy. I don't want to
>> create a new profile because it took so long. Is there a way I can add this
>> in to what I already have?
>> I would appreciate any advise.
>> Gustav
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Re: [GNC] GNUCash Documentation

[Justin Haynes]

Thanks David!

I just want to update the Edit -> Preferences area to start with.  Seems
the development team has been busy.  For example, I posted a message to the
forum on file associations.  The information cropped up in a thread 6
months ago I found later, but had the answers been in the documentation,
people may find them - or at least, we have a link to post when the
question comes up in the forum.

I don't have it handy, but I think I saw a bug already there for updating
section 10 on customizing GNUCash in bugzilla.  If that one doesn't cover
it then I can open a new one.

I currently use GNUCash on Windows and Mac, but I used to use it
exclusively on OpenBSD.  If I'm not mistaken the screenshots are taking
from some LINUX variant, so I'd likely throw the environment needed to do
documentation on a VM with a linux and take the screenshots needed from
that instance.

And on the timing - I will be moving rather slowly on this myself.  My work
commitments are high right now.  I can start a few minutes at a time
getting my environment set up and compiling the documentation to see it
work before I get started working on it.



On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 8:33 AM David T.  wrote:

> Justin,
>
> As one who has worked on the docs before, I say welcome! My only change
> would be to wait longer—say a week—since many are busy with other life
> responsibilities.
>
> Is there a particular area that particularly irks you?
>
> David
>
>
> > On Mar 14, 2019, at 7:33 AM, Justin Haynes 
> wrote:
> >
> > I can probably start spending a little time each month contributing to
> documentation.  I read about how to start contributing and noticed that one
> of the steps is to open a bug in Bugzilla.  I noticed when searching
> Bugzilla (
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&no_redirect=1&order=Importance&product=Documentation&query_format=specific
> <
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&no_redirect=1&order=Importance&product=Documentation&query_format=specific>),
> that there are 50 bugs.  I skimmed them, to see what bugs looked like and
> how people are working on them as evidenced in the comments.
> >
> > So I assume the following approach should work just fine, as I will not
> be having or wanting commit access:
> >
> > 1. If I see a bug I’d like to jump in and fix, and it doesn’t seem to be
> getting attention - just confirm by posting a comment to the bug proposing
> to work on it and see if I get a response within say 24 hours.  If I don’t
> see anything back, start working on it and submit my patches, or whatever
> we're calling them.
> >
> > 2. If I notice something that needs fixing, submit a bug and start
> working on it.
> >
> > Am I on the right track?
> >
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[GNC] GNUCash Documentation

[Justin Haynes]

I can probably start spending a little time each month contributing to 
documentation.  I read about how to start contributing and noticed that one of 
the steps is to open a bug in Bugzilla.  I noticed when searching Bugzilla 
(https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&no_redirect=1&order=Importance&product=Documentation&query_format=specific
 
),
 that there are 50 bugs.  I skimmed them, to see what bugs looked like and how 
people are working on them as evidenced in the comments. 

So I assume the following approach should work just fine, as I will not be 
having or wanting commit access:

1. If I see a bug I’d like to jump in and fix, and it doesn’t seem to be 
getting attention - just confirm by posting a comment to the bug proposing to 
work on it and see if I get a response within say 24 hours.  If I don’t see 
anything back, start working on it and submit my patches, or whatever we're 
calling them.

2. If I notice something that needs fixing, submit a bug and start working on 
it.  

Am I on the right track?


Justin
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Re: [GNC] Uploading Invoices

[Justin Haynes]

File -> Import -> Import Bills and Invoices.

Can you export as a csv from your invoicing system?You may want to play
with, say, 1-3 at a time, and then play with the options.

Notice the "Open not yet posted documents in tabs" option which can be
useful, so that you can see how things will import *before* you decide to
post them.

[image: image.png]


Oh, also, have you looked in File -> Properties?  Notice under book options
in "Business" and "Counters".  In Counters, those are for internal
numbering, but there is also a field in invoices


And one more thing - if the external invoicing system has its own invoice
numbers, you should be able to import those as the "Billing ID".  That's
separate from GNUCash's internal InvoicID.  So for example, if you don't
have any invoices, and you manually created a new customer and created a
new invoice, you could rely on GNUCash to autonumber teh invoice, and you
can fill in the external invoice systems id as "Billing ID" Like I show
here.  I would think importing works the same but I have not tested it
becaus I don't use an external invoicing system.

[image: image.png]

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> I also need to import invoices YTD, paid and open.
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> Is there a template?
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Re: [GNC] Setting up chart of accounts

[Justin Haynes]

Teresa, At the risk of going off topic, hang in there.  :-)   I am not an
accountant and only learned bookkeeping by having the title of "Treasurer"
fall upon me for a non-profit I am involved in.  We needed to use
Quickbooks Online.  Around the same time, I started doing my own finances
in GNUCash.

My experience has been that it is really difficult to start books, and once
you have it nailed down it is much much easier.

On top of that, my opinion is that it is harder to get started with
GNUCash, and much much easier to keep using GNUCash.  Harder because not
many programs work like GNUCash does anymore, but so much easer to keep
using because it is so consistent from version to version.  You can learn
these skills now and you won't have to worry about some company changing
everything ever 3 years and dragging you in a new direction.  GNUCAsh is as
consistent as accounting should be, and it uses *real accounting concepts*,
so it is really universal.

Lastly, the user community is wonderful.  The knowledge is out there, and
the typical user (seems to me) has been using it for years.

Let us know how it goes. Liz experience is in line with mine.  When you
start the account you have an opportunity to transfer from opening
balance.  IT's been a while for me as well.

My opinion is that it is better to have more accounts and more structure
than too little.  You can always delete a subaccounts like
"Expenses:Victuals:Coffee:Retail"  "Expenses:Victuals:Food" and be prompted
to move *all* the transactions into "Expenses:Victuals".  Then you can
rename "Expenses:Victuals" to "Expenses:Food".  But it is much harder to
decide later that you want to split "Expenses:Food" into
"Expenses:Food:Restaurant" and "Expenses:Food:Grocery", becuase you'll have
to redo the transactions to file them into the separate new accounts.

Is your billing taken care of or are you setting up A/P and A/R?  There are
quite a few business owners on the list as well who have experience with
that.  I use A/P for my own personal finances because I love being able to
find all my invoices in one place, and so I can quickly find out if a line
item in checking means I actually paide the whole bill or over paid, etc...

Good luck!,

Justin

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 3:17 AM Liz  wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:40:28 -0500
> Michael or Penny Novack  wrote:
>
> > Since you say you are experienced in accounting (but new to gnucash I
> > think what you are asking is "if I have an account A and I want it to
> > be a child of account B, how do I do this (in gnucash)?"
> >
> > Yes?
> >
> > If so, what you want to do is "edit" account A which will give you a
> > chance to specify account B is its parent.
> >
> > Try it where it is easy. For example, under the main parent Assets
> > you probably want children "current assets" and "fixed assets". Then
> > under "current assets" you probably want "checking account",
> > "undeposited cash", etc.
>
> What isn't clear is that you can change things - you can move accounts
> and give them new parents, and so on.
> If you don't get it quite right at first, you can edit it and fix it.
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Re: [GNC] Fwd: Relative paths in transaction associations

[Justin Haynes]

This all worked very well and was very simple in a text editor.  The
process was deterministic - there was no text that matched my searches
other than what needed to be replaced.  I'll summarize for posterity:

Problem:  The problem was that I wanted to be able to use GNUCash from
multiple computers with multiple OSes and to have access to the files
associated to the transactions, such as receipts.

Solution:  The solution was twofold.

1. Enable the already-present feature meant for this very purpose in   Edit
-> Preferences -> General -> Path head for Transaction Association Files,
so that all future files I attach to transactions would be to relative
paths, and so that GNUCash would know where to find the files when I right
click on a transaction and click
Open Associated File/Location.
2. Replace all my absolute paths in my xml file with relative ones.  This
was as simple as replacing all occurrences of  "file:///" with
"file:/" where  was any number of things for the past 3
computers I used over the years.  I did the replacement for as many sets of
absolute paths corresponded to past locations on those computers.  This
left only a relative path.

Since the path head is stored in preferences local to the current
installation, I don't have to do anything special moving from one computer
to the next.  GNUCash knows where to look for files under the path head.

Additionally I use a cloud service to synchronize my files to the correct
location on each computer so that I only have to attach once from whichever
computer I happen to be using.  And likewise from any computer I can refer
to the receipts by simply right clicking on the transaction -> Open
Associated File/Location

As David said, work from a backup.  Meaning:

1. close gnucash.
2. copy the gnucash file to another location entirely.
3. use a utiilty that can extract .zip files, and open this .gnucash file
(only necessary if your gnucash is zipping your files . This is the default
behavior).
4. Edit the resulting file.  Rezip it and rename it so that the zip file is
ending in .gnucash.
5. When satisfied, BACKUP the original file AGAIN, and replace the original
with your edited zipped gnucash file.


Redundant to put this all in the same email, I know, but perhaps a future
user will find all this in one place and be happy.



On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:24 PM D  wrote:

> Justin,
>
> Probably, your best bet is to dig in to the data file directly and change
> the entries there.
>
> NOTE: editing your data file directly can be risky. Always work on a
> backup copy!!!
>
> How you go about this depends on the way you have your data stored (XML,
> database).
>
> XML is straight text, although by default it's compressed (change the
> setting in preferences to store it without compression), so a find and
> replace in a text editor would suffice.
>
> The db backend will require digging around for the table in question, and
> developing an appropriate SQL command.
>
> Oh. Did I mention that you should do this on a backup? You should.
>
> David
>
> On February 16, 2019, at 12:44 AM, Justin Haynes 
> wrote:
>
> OK everything worked as expected, and I can switch between disparate
> machines and still have access to associations!
>
> So I only have one remaining question:Where should I look in the data file
> or in the code or documentation to discover how to programmatically or
> using a text editor change all the absolute paths in my current
> associations to relative ones?
>
> Thanks!,
>
> Justin
>
>
>
> On Feb 13, 2019, at 11:18 AM, Justin Haynes 
> wrote:
>
> OK, so I can see that with a populated "Path head for Transaction
> Association Files", that linking transactions to files after this is
> populated, results in the "Relative" field being checked next to the
> corresponding entry in the "All Transaction Associations" window, and an
> absolute path in the window.  When I have my other laptop, I can experiment
> to see if changing the Path head configured in GNUCash on that laptop will
> result in GNUCash on that machine finding the files associated when I click
> on Open Associated File/Location from the corresponding Transaction.
>
> Second Question: if my experiment works, and GNUCash behaves the way I
> would like, how can I go back and change the links to all previously
> created transaction associations to be relative links to the same files?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justin
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:46 AM Justin Haynes 
> wrote:
>
> > Found it.
> >
> > Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Path head for Transaction Association
> > Files.
> >
> > Now i just need to experiment with it to see how it behaves.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:43

[GNC] Fwd: Relative paths in transaction associations

[Justin Haynes]

OK everything worked as expected, and I can switch between disparate
machines and still have access to associations!

So I only have one remaining question:Where should I look in the data file
or in the code or documentation to discover how to programmatically or
using a text editor change all the absolute paths in my current
associations to relative ones?

Thanks!,

Justin



On Feb 13, 2019, at 11:18 AM, Justin Haynes  wrote:

OK, so I can see that with a populated "Path head for Transaction
Association Files", that linking transactions to files after this is
populated, results in the "Relative" field being checked next to the
corresponding entry in the "All Transaction Associations" window, and an
absolute path in the window.  When I have my other laptop, I can experiment
to see if changing the Path head configured in GNUCash on that laptop will
result in GNUCash on that machine finding the files associated when I click
on Open Associated File/Location from the corresponding Transaction.

Second Question: if my experiment works, and GNUCash behaves the way I
would like, how can I go back and change the links to all previously
created transaction associations to be relative links to the same files?

Thanks,

Justin

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:46 AM Justin Haynes 
wrote:

> Found it.
>
> Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Path head for Transaction Association
> Files.
>
> Now i just need to experiment with it to see how it behaves.
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:43 AM Justin Haynes 
> wrote:
>
>> What provision is there for relative paths in transaction associations?
>> I often associate transactions with files where the files are almost always
>> receipts.  This results in a URL to an absolute path which appears in the
>> Tools -> Transaction Associations dialog.  Also from a transaction I can
>> access the file I linked to with Transaction -> Open Associated
>> File/Location.  The file opens in whatever program is associated for that
>> file type.
>>
>> I would rather have relative paths which resolve with relation to an
>> absolute base path I can figure.  This would allow me to move from system
>> to system and only change the absolute path on the target system's GNUCash
>> instance.  I then only use one instance at a time on the same files of
>> course.  These files exist on local machines but sync with a cloud service
>> so that the file is available wherever I'd like it to be.
>>
>> Tools -> Transaction Associations brings up the "All Transaction
>> Associations" window, where I see columns for the Date, Description,
>> Association (URL link to the resource, either local (file:// with link to
>> absolute path) or remote).  There is then an "Available?" column populated
>> with "Unknown" in each row, and a column called "Relative" with no data.
>>
>> Since there is  "Relative" field, I assumed there must be some proviision
>> for this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>
>>
>
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Re: [GNC] Relative paths in transaction associations

[Justin Haynes]

OK, so I can see that with a populated "Path head for Transaction
Association Files", that linking transactions to files after this is
populated, results in the "Relative" field being checked next to the
corresponding entry in the "All Transaction Associations" window, and an
absolute path in the window.  When I have my other laptop, I can experiment
to see if changing the Path head configured in GNUCash on that laptop will
result in GNUCash on that machine finding the files associated when I click
on Open Associated File/Location from the corresponding Transaction.

Second Question: if my experiment works, and GNUCash behaves the way I
would like, how can I go back and change the links to all previously
created transaction associations to be relative links to the same files?

Thanks,

Justin

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:46 AM Justin Haynes 
wrote:

> Found it.
>
> Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Path head for Transaction Association
> Files.
>
> Now i just need to experiment with it to see how it behaves.
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:43 AM Justin Haynes 
> wrote:
>
>> What provision is there for relative paths in transaction associations?
>> I often associate transactions with files where the files are almost always
>> receipts.  This results in a URL to an absolute path which appears in the
>> Tools -> Transaction Associations dialog.  Also from a transaction I can
>> access the file I linked to with Transaction -> Open Associated
>> File/Location.  The file opens in whatever program is associated for that
>> file type.
>>
>> I would rather have relative paths which resolve with relation to an
>> absolute base path I can figure.  This would allow me to move from system
>> to system and only change the absolute path on the target system's GNUCash
>> instance.  I then only use one instance at a time on the same files of
>> course.  These files exist on local machines but sync with a cloud service
>> so that the file is available wherever I'd like it to be.
>>
>> Tools -> Transaction Associations brings up the "All Transaction
>> Associations" window, where I see columns for the Date, Description,
>> Association (URL link to the resource, either local (file:// with link to
>> absolute path) or remote).  There is then an "Available?" column populated
>> with "Unknown" in each row, and a column called "Relative" with no data.
>>
>> Since there is  "Relative" field, I assumed there must be some proviision
>> for this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>
>>
>
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Re: [GNC] Relative paths in transaction associations

[Justin Haynes]

Found it.

Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Path head for Transaction Association
Files.

Now i just need to experiment with it to see how it behaves.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:43 AM Justin Haynes 
wrote:

> What provision is there for relative paths in transaction associations?  I
> often associate transactions with files where the files are almost always
> receipts.  This results in a URL to an absolute path which appears in the
> Tools -> Transaction Associations dialog.  Also from a transaction I can
> access the file I linked to with Transaction -> Open Associated
> File/Location.  The file opens in whatever program is associated for that
> file type.
>
> I would rather have relative paths which resolve with relation to an
> absolute base path I can figure.  This would allow me to move from system
> to system and only change the absolute path on the target system's GNUCash
> instance.  I then only use one instance at a time on the same files of
> course.  These files exist on local machines but sync with a cloud service
> so that the file is available wherever I'd like it to be.
>
> Tools -> Transaction Associations brings up the "All Transaction
> Associations" window, where I see columns for the Date, Description,
> Association (URL link to the resource, either local (file:// with link to
> absolute path) or remote).  There is then an "Available?" column populated
> with "Unknown" in each row, and a column called "Relative" with no data.
>
> Since there is  "Relative" field, I assumed there must be some proviision
> for this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justin
>
>
>
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[GNC] Relative paths in transaction associations

[Justin Haynes]

What provision is there for relative paths in transaction associations?  I
often associate transactions with files where the files are almost always
receipts.  This results in a URL to an absolute path which appears in the
Tools -> Transaction Associations dialog.  Also from a transaction I can
access the file I linked to with Transaction -> Open Associated
File/Location.  The file opens in whatever program is associated for that
file type.

I would rather have relative paths which resolve with relation to an
absolute base path I can figure.  This would allow me to move from system
to system and only change the absolute path on the target system's GNUCash
instance.  I then only use one instance at a time on the same files of
course.  These files exist on local machines but sync with a cloud service
so that the file is available wherever I'd like it to be.

Tools -> Transaction Associations brings up the "All Transaction
Associations" window, where I see columns for the Date, Description,
Association (URL link to the resource, either local (file:// with link to
absolute path) or remote).  There is then an "Available?" column populated
with "Unknown" in each row, and a column called "Relative" with no data.

Since there is  "Relative" field, I assumed there must be some proviision
for this.

Thanks,

Justin
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