[GNC] How to suppress automatic refund fill-in for overpayment
Hi, all. I’m running GC Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) on Mac (High Sierra). My wife offers clients a discount if they pay for several tutoring sessions in advance. When I process the payment (which exceeds the first session’s invoice amount), GnuCash always computes and fills in the “Refund” amount with the excess payment. This is never what I want, so I always have to clear out the Refund field manually before proceeding. I have not found a preference setting to control this behavior, nor did I find anything in the mailing list archive. Have I missed it? Clearly this is not a huge problem, but it’s a frequent mild annoyance I would like to avoid if I could. Thanks. - Tim ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] How to suppress automatic refund fill-in for overpayment
I don’t think there is a way. I just zero it out manually too and let it all go to A/R and then use the funds as a pre-payment that I later apply. If you create a credit memo first since you know they’ll be getting that discount, you can ‘pay’ it as part of the process. Another option is to book the payment against a Customer Deposits liability account and then pay out invoices from there as you go using just the exact amount needed. Regards, Adrien > On Mar 26, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Tim Quinn wrote: > > Hi, all. I’m running GC Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) on Mac (High Sierra). > > My wife offers clients a discount if they pay for several tutoring sessions > in advance. > > When I process the payment (which exceeds the first session’s invoice > amount), GnuCash always computes and fills in the “Refund” amount with the > excess payment. > > This is never what I want, so I always have to clear out the Refund field > manually before proceeding. > > I have not found a preference setting to control this behavior, nor did I > find anything in the mailing list archive. Have I missed it? > > Clearly this is not a huge problem, but it’s a frequent mild annoyance I > would like to avoid if I could. > > Thanks. > > - Tim ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] How to suppress automatic refund fill-in for overpayment
Op dinsdag 26 maart 2019 17:50:58 CET schreef Tim Quinn: > Hi, all. I’m running GC Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) on Mac (High Sierra). > > My wife offers clients a discount if they pay for several tutoring sessions > in advance. > > When I process the payment (which exceeds the first session’s invoice > amount), GnuCash always computes and fills in the “Refund” amount with the > excess payment. > > This is never what I want, so I always have to clear out the Refund field > manually before proceeding. > > I have not found a preference setting to control this behavior, nor did I > find anything in the mailing list archive. Have I missed it? > > Clearly this is not a huge problem, but it’s a frequent mild annoyance I > would like to avoid if I could. Hi Tim, Just to be sure I understand correctly what's happening: So you have at some point used the Process Payment window to enter a prepayment for a customer. That at some point later you write the first invoice for that customer. As the customer has already paid in advance you'd now like to link part of the prepayment to that invoice. If you use the process payment window to do so (by selecting both the prepayment and the invoice) it will fill the Refund field. When doing this manually it will always fill that field indeed. The only way I have found to avoid this is to configure gnucash to automatically pay invoices on posting. You can enable this via Edit->Preferences->Business->(Invoices)Process Payments on Posting Regards, Geert ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] How to suppress automatic refund fill-in for overpayment
What you described is exactly what I do, applying the “left-over” funds to future invoices for that same customer. I know about and use credit memos, although not exactly in the way you described. I was really looking just for fewer key clicks during payment processing to simplify things for myself, so I’m inclined not to create another Customer Deposits account which seems to complicate things unless I’m missing some other benefit. Thanks. - Tim > On Mar 26, 2019, at 1:50 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I don’t think there is a way. I just zero it out manually too and let it all > go to A/R and then use the funds as a pre-payment that I later apply. > > If you create a credit memo first since you know they’ll be getting that > discount, you can ‘pay’ it as part of the process. > > Another option is to book the payment against a Customer Deposits liability > account and then pay out invoices from there as you go using just the exact > amount needed. > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Mar 26, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Tim Quinn wrote: >> >> Hi, all. I’m running GC Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) on Mac (High Sierra). >> >> My wife offers clients a discount if they pay for several tutoring sessions >> in advance. >> >> When I process the payment (which exceeds the first session’s invoice >> amount), GnuCash always computes and fills in the “Refund” amount with the >> excess payment. >> >> This is never what I want, so I always have to clear out the Refund field >> manually before proceeding. >> >> I have not found a preference setting to control this behavior, nor did I >> find anything in the mailing list archive. Have I missed it? >> >> Clearly this is not a huge problem, but it’s a frequent mild annoyance I >> would like to avoid if I could. >> >> Thanks. >> >> - Tim > > ___ > 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] How to suppress automatic refund fill-in for overpayment
No other benefit I can think of. It’s just a preference for treating the funds as a liability (until earned) rather than a negative asset. Regards, Adrien > On Mar 26, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Tim Quinn wrote: > > What you described is exactly what I do, applying the “left-over” funds to > future invoices for that same customer. I know about and use credit memos, > although not exactly in the way you described. > > I was really looking just for fewer key clicks during payment processing to > simplify things for myself, so I’m inclined not to create another Customer > Deposits account which seems to complicate things unless I’m missing some > other benefit. > > Thanks. > > - Tim ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] How to suppress automatic refund fill-in for overpayment
Hi Tim, I had sent this before but my mail was blocked by your hosting provider. I'll now resend to list only, perhaps this will reach you. To all others, sorry for the double post. Op dinsdag 26 maart 2019 17:50:58 CET schreef Tim Quinn: > Hi, all. I’m running GC Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) on Mac (High Sierra). > > My wife offers clients a discount if they pay for several tutoring sessions > in advance. > > When I process the payment (which exceeds the first session’s invoice > amount), GnuCash always computes and fills in the “Refund” amount with the > excess payment. > > This is never what I want, so I always have to clear out the Refund field > manually before proceeding. > > I have not found a preference setting to control this behavior, nor did I > find anything in the mailing list archive. Have I missed it? > > Clearly this is not a huge problem, but it’s a frequent mild annoyance I > would like to avoid if I could. Hi Tim, Just to be sure I understand correctly what's happening: So you have at some point used the Process Payment window to enter a prepayment for a customer. That at some point later you write the first invoice for that customer. As the customer has already paid in advance you'd now like to link part of the prepayment to that invoice. If you use the process payment window to do so (by selecting both the prepayment and the invoice) it will fill the Refund field. When doing this manually it will always fill that field indeed. The only way I have found to avoid this is to configure gnucash to automatically pay invoices on posting. You can enable this via Edit->Preferences->Business->(Invoices)Process Payments on Posting Regards, Geert ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] How to suppress automatic refund fill-in for overpayment
Hi, Geert. Thanks for the response, and sorry about the earlier block. My sequence-of-events is slightly different from what you summarized, but I’m not sure the difference is significant for this discussion. Anyway, just to be horribly and boringly complete in case it does make a difference, here is my overall workflow involving these prepayments: A first-time client attends a session. 1. Create the new customer record representing the new client. 2. Create an invoice for the new customer at the non-discounted rate. 3. Post the invoice. 4. Pay the invoice with the exact amount. No prepayment (yet). At some time later, the client decides to opt for a prepaid group of discounted sessions. As a good-will gesture, we retroactively consider the first session to be part of the group of discounted sessions, which essentially means we have overcharged (and the client has overpaid) for that first session. 4. Create a new job for that client representing the group of sessions being purchased together. 5. Create a credit memo, associated with that job, for the overpayment — the difference between the normal rate and the discounted rate. (I should probably go back and associate the earlier invoice with this new job, but I’m too lazy to do that because IIRC it would involve unposting the invoice, editing the job field, reposting the invoice, and repaying the invoice. I do not really do anything with the job association — no reporting, etc.. I’m not even sure why I still bother creating the job except out of fear that, some day, I will discover a good use for it.) When the client comes for the next session (typically with payment for the remainder of the discounted package): 6. Create a new invoice associated with the earlier-created job. 7. Post the invoice. 8. Pay the invoice. On the payment screen I select the invoice I just created, the credit memo I created earlier, and fill in the payment amount. GnuCash at that point automatically calculates and fills in the refund amount. I have not tried the auto-pay feature. I will give that a try. If you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading and thanks for the suggestion. - Tim > On Mar 27, 2019, at 3:25 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > I had sent this before but my mail was blocked by your hosting provider. I'll > now resend to list > only, perhaps this will reach you. To all others, sorry for the double post. > > Op dinsdag 26 maart 2019 17:50:58 CET schreef Tim Quinn: >> Hi, all. I’m running GC Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) on Mac (High Sierra). >> >> My wife offers clients a discount if they pay for several tutoring sessions >> in advance. >> >> When I process the payment (which exceeds the first session’s invoice >> amount), GnuCash always computes and fills in the “Refund” amount with the >> excess payment. >> >> This is never what I want, so I always have to clear out the Refund field >> manually before proceeding. >> >> I have not found a preference setting to control this behavior, nor did I >> find anything in the mailing list archive. Have I missed it? >> >> Clearly this is not a huge problem, but it’s a frequent mild annoyance I >> would like to avoid if I could. > > Hi Tim, > > Just to be sure I understand correctly what's happening: > > So you have at some point used the Process Payment window to enter a > prepayment for a customer. > That at some point later you write the first invoice for that customer. > As the customer has already paid in advance you'd now like to link part of > the > prepayment to that invoice. > If you use the process payment window to do so (by selecting both the > prepayment and the invoice) it will fill the Refund field. > > When doing this manually it will always fill that field indeed. The only way > I > have found to avoid this is to configure gnucash to automatically pay > invoices on posting. You can enable this via > Edit->Preferences->Business->(Invoices)Process Payments on Posting > > Regards, > > Geert > > ___ > 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] How to suppress automatic refund fill-in for overpayment
Tim, You can probably skip the job part of the workflow. ‘Job’ isn’t the right term. It functions like a purchase order, not really a categorization tying multiple documents together. I just got around to filing the RFE to rename the feature accordingly, https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797153. Regards, Adrien > On Mar 27, 2019, at 10:27 AM, Tim Quinn wrote: > > Hi, Geert. > > Thanks for the response, and sorry about the earlier block. > > My sequence-of-events is slightly different from what you summarized, but I’m > not sure the difference is significant for this discussion. > > Anyway, just to be horribly and boringly complete in case it does make a > difference, here is my overall workflow involving these prepayments: > > A first-time client attends a session. > > 1. Create the new customer record representing the new client. > 2. Create an invoice for the new customer at the non-discounted rate. > 3. Post the invoice. > 4. Pay the invoice with the exact amount. No prepayment (yet). > > At some time later, the client decides to opt for a prepaid group of > discounted sessions. As a good-will gesture, we retroactively consider the > first session to be part of the group of discounted sessions, which > essentially means we have overcharged (and the client has overpaid) for that > first session. > > 4. Create a new job for that client representing the group of sessions being > purchased together. > 5. Create a credit memo, associated with that job, for the overpayment — the > difference between the normal rate and the discounted rate. > > (I should probably go back and associate the earlier invoice with this new > job, but I’m too lazy to do that because IIRC it would involve unposting the > invoice, editing the job field, reposting the invoice, and repaying the > invoice. I do not really do anything with the job association — no reporting, > etc.. I’m not even sure why I still bother creating the job except out of > fear that, some day, I will discover a good use for it.) > > When the client comes for the next session (typically with payment for the > remainder of the discounted package): > > 6. Create a new invoice associated with the earlier-created job. > 7. Post the invoice. > 8. Pay the invoice. On the payment screen I select the invoice I just > created, the credit memo I created earlier, and fill in the payment amount. > > GnuCash at that point automatically calculates and fills in the refund amount. > > I have not tried the auto-pay feature. I will give that a try. > > If you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading and thanks for the suggestion. > > - Tim ___ 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.
