> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:50:09AM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> >
> > I was talking to someone about on-line banking & gnucash. I hadn't
> > thought about ti much, but a large part of on-line banking is
> > reconciling statements against what the bank has. Now, many 'online
> > banks' use QIF export as a way of sending statements to users. Sooo
> > (sound of lightbulb turning on) isn't the right way to import QIF files
> > is to run them through a reconcile-like dialogue?
> >
> > Anyone out there using gnucash and also looking at thier bank-staements
> > on-line? What do y'all think?
> >
Last time I looked, my bank's qif imports give me all the transactions
since the last statement, not since the last qif import.
If gnucash were to remember the complete text of the qif-version of the
transactions, it could easily and reliably eliminate duplicate
qif-transactions. Matching them with the manually entered ones
should not be automatic -- except, of course if gnucash recognizes
that a new qif transaction is identical to a previously matched
qif-transaction.
Reconciling with monthly bank statements is a separate issue, because
monthly bank statements (a) do not repeat transactions, and (b) are
a separate sequence of consistent data from the downloads.
Maybe some users do download consistent, non-verlapping batches of
qif transactions. They should then be reconcilable independently from
paper statements.
>
> That's exactly what I am currently doing manually, once a week. My
> Credit Union can provide transaction records in QIF format, but there
> doesn't seem to be a good way to use them with GnuCash. One of the
> things I like about this combination of services is the amount of work
> it saves; errors are caught early, and there is no need to laboriously
> drag through a month or more of transactions to unsnarl mistakes.
>
> --
> Randolph Fritz
> Eugene, Oregon, USA
>
