Re: [SL] Refund Checks

[Mark B. <ma...@ga...>]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 07:47:09PM -0800, Dave Snell wrote:
> --- Dr Eberhard Lisse <el...@li...> wrote:
> 
> > End of year, actually.
> 
> So just so I'm clear, good Doctor, I should create a
> bogus vendor record and accompanying AP transaction so
> that I can issue my refund check.  Then throughout the
> year - as I continue to statement my customer - I
> should just wink and say "just ignore this
> transaction" we'll take care of it at the end of the
> year.  And then come the end of the year I should do
> what again?  Sorry if I'm being slow, I guess I just
> expect an accounting package to handle some of the
> basic accounting transactions for me.
> 

Can't you create a holding account and enter a G/L transaction so
the customer account is correct?  Then use A/P against this same
holding account to generate the check?  Externally all is
copacetic and you just need to reconcile that holding account at
year end.

Hopefully, you don't cut that many refund checks in a year.

Yes, it is awkward.

Yes, you have found an area that doesn't work well.

In Free Software there is the idea that people scratch their own
itch--and you have a nasty case of poison oak on this one.  I've
never seen this request come up in years of being subscribed so
it is not that common of a need.

So, submit a wish on the sql-ledger website.  Or write the code
yourself.  Or hire someone to write it for you.  In any case,
submit it to the project for all to benefit, as others have done
before you.  How do you think Dieter can offer Sql-Ledger in so
many languages?  Where do you think the idea for recurring
transactions came from?  Etc, etc.  If it pains you so much, then
you have the opportunity to help make it better.

m