Re: [GNC] Posting a bad debt

2019-04-10 Thread Justin Haynes
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. >

Re: [GNC] Posting a bad debt

2019-04-10 Thread 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: > > If you create an invoice that later becomes uncollectible, there is no way > to charge it off to a bad debt

Re: [GNC] whois lookup - gnucash.net

2019-03-30 Thread 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

Re: [GNC] Bills in Gnucash

2019-03-29 Thread 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

[GNC] GNUCash Documentation

2019-03-13 Thread 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

Re: [GNC] Uploading Invoices

2019-03-08 Thread 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

Re: [GNC] Setting up chart of accounts

2019-03-08 Thread 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

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Relative paths in transaction associations

2019-03-05 Thread Justin Haynes
ion, 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 &

Re: [GNC] Relative paths in transaction associations

2019-02-13 Thread Justin Haynes
ction. 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: >

Re: [GNC] Relative paths in transaction associations

2019-02-13 Thread 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

[GNC] Relative paths in transaction associations

2019-02-13 Thread 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