Hi Martin,

Thanks for the response. Yes a general rules framework/solution that can be 
easily configured would be great and save a lot of effort and happy to help 
think about how it might work. 

I like the suggestion of creating opening balances and adding data later. 
Goal should get something that is accurate now and I can add data to on a 
monthly basis going forward and then try to get 1-2 years of data to be 
accurate so it can help me with any tax issues.

thanks,
Jonathan
On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 11:42:38 PM UTC+12 [email protected] wrote:

> * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2021-05-15 03:33]:
> > 1. Push as many rules into each importer.
>
> I wouldn't put the rules into each importer. I'd keep each importer
> focussed on producing a basic transaction. I'd then have a second
> stage importer which takes those transactions and amends them. This
> way you don't need to replicate similar logic in each importer.
>
> > For example, if $-amount
> > equals = $2000 and/or description is "payment to ABC apts" then add label
> > Expense:Rent.
>
> I have an importer that does something like that. There are a number
> of similar "rules-based" importers available. I was planning on
> sending an email with an overview of each in the hope that we can
> collaboratively work/agree on *one* solution, but I won't have time in
> the next few weeks.
>
> I can make my solution available with some examples if that'd be
> useful, though.
>
> > I probably have 1500 bank transactions to work through and 3000
> > credit card transactions so trying figure out how best to get this
> > all done and done quickly. I can see that as I do this regularly
> > 1/month I can get this down to 5-10 minutes with scripts to fetch
> > ofx files, script to call bean-extract, etc.
> > 
> > My main question is what should I do now with the historical data to
> > import?
>
> You can always create opening balances for a specific point in time
> and go back later and add more transactions.
>
> -- 
> Martin Michlmayr
> https://www.cyrius.com/
>

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