Accounting for trading or bartering

is there any possible way to manage trading? customer to customer like brokery??? one invoice and “purchase from - sold to” type of thing, it will be really helpful

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Yes, you can manage trading. No, you cannot do it in one transaction. In fact, it takes three. Every transaction where goods or services are delivered from one entity to another must be entered as the equivalent of a sales invoice or purchase invoice. Once you have entered the invoices, they can be offset against one another with a journal entry as described here: Manager Cloud.

i want to use it for poultry management, one customer to another, one farmer to another chicken supplies, means both are my customer, i sell feed and medicine to my farmers and then purchase chicken from them and sell it to brokers or traders. and i also purchase chicken from traders or brokers sometimes and sell it to some other traders. how to do it? kindly guide me through. everytime i use a purchase invoice it has only option for suppliers, there must be an option to purchase not only from suppliers but all account holders or customer so that trading can easily be done

Customers and suppliers must be set up separately, even if they are the same entity. You can still use the procedure in the Guide I linked to.

if u update version and add a few things, i m willing to even pay for it, one thing trading tab, 2nd password encryption. so one account can be managed in both ways, sale and purchase, all details, transactions and invoices in one account. and if someone wants all details about one customer then there should be an option to see statement including both invoice and transactions, not like separately details… and password is really must have thing.

  1. You cannot obtain custom modifications, even if you are willing to pay for them.

  2. The desktop edition offers no security. If you want to protect the program, protect the computer. If you want passwords, buy the server or cloud editions.

  3. Your idea about combined trading transactions is not going to happen, in my opinion. The complexities of inventory and tax management are too great. And the result would violate legal requirements in many locations around the world.

atleast there must be an option to add opening balance, not all the time its invoices but some other random entries for already running business, in case we try to put it into Manager.io.

There are multiple ways for adding opening balances, it just depends on the type of balance as to which way is used.

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https://guides.manager.io/9812
https://guides.manager.io/5497
https://guides.manager.io/5494
https://guides.manager.io/7227