The only way GnuCash can possibly know which of multiple cards a transaction is from is if that information is somehow contained in the data fields of the record that is being imported, usually something in the description field. GnuCash tokenizes the information in a number of fields including the description so it will attempt to match but unless there is a token or combination of tokens which is unique for each credit card it is not likely to be successful. You could try downloading and importing the files as OFX files. This has a service provider field which may contain useful information if the credit cards were with different providers. GnuCash may or may not utilize information from this field however. The only other thing you could do is request the bank to include the credit card number associated with the transaction in the description field in which case the Bayesian matching should assign correctly once it has been initially trained to map a given credit card number onto a specific account.
Does your credit card provider not supply downloads of the transactions associated with each credit card separately? My bank (also the credit card issuer) does this for each of the credit cards issued to me and I am able to import these separately for each card. The transactions between my bank account and credit card liability account are only for the payments to the credit card account. David Cousens On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 20:02 -0500, scum buster wrote: > I have been using Gnucash for years......currently version 3.7. I very much > appreciate the program.....I used quicken for years til I started using > Gnucash. > > Have never used this forum before, so I hope I don't screw this up. LOL > > I am not a Gnucash expert....I know I do some things wrong but I get by.... > > One thing I always seem to have issues with (I am sure it is user > error).....is with my checking account and credit card charges that come > through that account > > I download my checking account data as a quicken file and "import" that. > > I have a few credit cards with one company. The charges come through as " > bankname online payment" when they hit my checking account. > > That would be fine if I had only one credit card with that bank. > > But with a few different cards, I have issues trying to get them to > auto-reconcile correctly and end up having to manually add the items and > manually pick the right account......and that ends up making duplicate > charges somehow. > > What is the right way to set things up so that Gnucash knows what credit > card account is being referenced when the charges hit my checking account? > > Thanks for your help! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gnucash-user > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 12:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 227, Issue 32 > > Send gnucash-user mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than > "Re: Contents of gnucash-user digest..." > > _______________________________________________ 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.
