[Kde-finance-apps] Re: payment detection

[puneet goyal]

> The way to handle this - AFAICS right now - is using lots (check this page
> over at our friends from GnuCash:
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/lotsoverview.html).  It will serve us well
> with investments (being able to do LIFO and FIFO stuff) as well as keeping
> track of invoice payments, both A/P and A/R.
>

>
> Nevertheless, there could be an Alkimia interface/service that is used to
> signal the opening of a lot (eg. Kraft signals KMyMoney to open a lot for a
> newly issued invoice) and the closing of a lot (eg. KMyMoney signals to Kraft
> that a lot has been closed = reached a balance of zero). All those details
> about the invoice (eg. invoice number, tax, what-do-I-know) can be attributes
> to the lot.
>
according to the above they can also be taken care of as the kvp values
http://wiki.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/kvpvalues.html

Regards,
Puneet