I'd like the looser rules for matching imported entries with existing entries.
The .qif files I get from my bank contain descriptions like
"CHQ#00452-0041093240" for a cheque. I suppose the digits after the dash are
some sort of tracking number; at any rate, when I type the cheque into
Gnucash I can't predict what they will turn out to be.
ATM withdrawal descriptions look like "GM W/D 000915". In this case I
do know what the trailing digits will be, but I don't want to type them or the
spaces, because I'm lazy.
Of course, for cheques and even some ATM withdrawals, the date in the .qif file
won't be the date on which I wrote the cheque or made the withdrawal.
For my purposes, I think I would like an existing entry in an account to match
an imported entry if
- the amounts match,
- the existing entry's description is a prefix of the imported entry's
description, and
- the existing record's date is on or before the imported record's date.
