Just a note re the training of the importer to match transactions to transfer accounts.
The ability to do this depends upon there being sufficient consistent distinguishing information in the description fields of the imported transaction. One vendor I have supplies a different unique transaction number number each time they send a request for payment. I also receive two separate direct credit requests from them (one from my wife and one for myself). There is not a part of the number which identifies which transaction was for which person or a part which uniquely identifies the organization although other information in the description does do that so the importer cannot assign the correcct expense account as there is not sufficient distinguishing information in the description field (I have separate expense accounts for this item for my wife and myself). On a lot of electronic transactions the description field is limited to 18 chars which can't include blanks which does not leave a lot of scope for differentiating information. I have to manualyl assignthe transfer accounts each month fro this pair of transaction and I have similar difficulties with some other imported transactions so be aware the importer will never be perfect even after training in some cases. You will only be able to get the importer to assign the correct expense accounts and or A/P if the vendor supplies distinuishing info to his/her bank and his/her bank passes that to your bank and they in turn include that in the description field. Unfortunately the importer can't read the vendor's mind. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
