Re: [GNC] Expense accounts in bills

2019-03-17 Thread david whiting
Derek, Thanks for this. I have now had a play with my set-up (or rather a copy of it) and see that I need to change my work flow. I think I'm going to work on that and then close the books at the end of the season and start afresh in the new season with what I hope will be a better set-up. Thank

Re: [GNC] Expense accounts in bills

2019-03-15 Thread Derek Atkins
David, You are doing it all wrong. You have two choices: Use Business Features or Not. If you choose NOT to use the business features, then create a set of ASSET accounts of the form you have, one account for each member. If you are NOT using the business features, then you MUST NOT use A/R an

Re: [GNC] Expense accounts in bills

2019-03-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Hmm.. That stinks. Perhaps an export, delete the A/R types, create Asset type accounts, then re-import? Since the transactions would have the same account name, that might work. I think you get to map them anyway in the importer. Other than that, it looks like you have quite a lot of work ahead

Re: [GNC] Expense accounts in bills

2019-03-15 Thread david whiting
Thanks. Unfortunately I can't move transactions to an account that is of a different type. If I create a new account with type Asset, it doesn't show up in the list of accounts that I can move the transactions to. If I change the type AR, it appears, but then once I have moved the transactions, I c

Re: [GNC] Expense accounts in bills

2019-03-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Probably because they contain transactions. You should be able to re-assign the type to any that are empty. Note, you shouldn’t need to manually migrate the transactions, as you delete the errant accounts, GnuCash should prompt on where to move the transactions. Simply select the proper account

Re: [GNC] Expense accounts in bills

2019-03-15 Thread david whiting
Ah, yes, you are correct. The accounts I can see are assets and the other are A/R. The problem I now have is that I don't seem to be able to change the account type from A/R to asset now that they have been created as A/R. Looks I might have to create new accounts and migrate each transaction acros

[GNC] Expense accounts in bills

2019-03-15 Thread david whiting
Hi, Gnucash Version: 3.3 Build ID: 3.3+ (2018-09-29) Ubuntu 18.10 I'm using gnucash for a community club where we have members who I represent in gnucash as Assets:Accounts Receivable:Members:Firstname Lastname I need to create bills for members and wish to select the relevent account receivable

Re: [GNC] Expense accounts in bills

2019-03-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
When I’ve had issues in the past with accounts not showing up in the Business Features like this, it was due to their type not being correct. They should all be of type Asset, *not* type Accounts Receivable. (but you can certainly make them children of A/R or better yet, create an ‘Other A/R’ a

[GNC] Expense accounts in bills

2019-03-14 Thread david whiting
Hi, Gnucash Version: 3.3 Build ID: 3.3+ (2018-09-29) Ubuntu 18.10 I'm using gnucash for a community club where we have members who I represent in gnucash as Assets:Accounts Receivable:Members:Firstname Lastname I need to create bills for members and wish to select the relevent account receivable