Ah my bad, I thought you'd just replied to me and wouldn't get more advice from the list especially from the user's that do use the importers :-)
Cheers David H. On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 10:10 am, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am sorry David. I hit “reply” when I should have hit “reply all”, right? > I sent the previous mail to the group as well. > > I am importing because I am trying to create a new GnuCash file with a lot > of transactions from different financial institutions; all of them are in > CSV (xls). When done, I don’t intend to import anymore. > > I am typically only going between two different banks. Most of the > transactions are between Bank1 and another bank, e.g. Bank2, Bank3, Bank4 > etc. In that sense a “Funds in Transit account” may work because most > (but not all) transfers are from/to Bank1. In any case, I would still need > to force it to not match when importing Bank1. > > > > > > *From:* David H [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 05 June, 2022 16:58 > *To:* [email protected]; Gnucash Users > *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Transfer Dates > > > > Mate, keep it on-list so others can offer suggestions/chip in where > relevant. Case in point I NEVER import anything so I can't comment on how > the matching works, others that do obviously can. I ALWAYS manually enter > txns that way when I reconcile I'm not reconciling the bank's txns against > the bank's statement :-) > > > > You have other options - as you say add something to the description > column to say where the funds are going to in the long run - you didn't say > you were transferring between more than 2 banks, so you're going from bank1 > to bank2 to bank3 sort of ? > > > > Forget Quicken, you left it for a reason :-) > > > > Cheers David H. > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 07:55, <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I use an intermediary “Funds in Transit account”, wouldn’t I run into > the same issue when importing bank1? It would match the original transfer > date of bank2 in the “Funds in Transit account”. I would need to force it > to not match. > > A disadvantage of using a “Funds in Transit account” is that I wouldn’t > easily see where the money was going (I am transferring between more than > two banks). > > > I was hoping that there was maybe some way of using another date column in > GnuCash (like having a transaction and a post date). > > If I recall correctly, Quicken actually modified the dates when importing > so that each bank showed the correct dates. > > I guess that I could modify the CSV file of bank1 to include the bank1 > dates in the description…. > > > > *From:* David H [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 05 June, 2022 14:15 > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* Gnucash Users > *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Transfer Dates > > > > If you want to be exact you probably need to use something like a "Funds > in Transit" account - transfer from bank2 to funds in transit on date 1 and > then transfer from funds in transit to bank1 3-5 days later. Effectively > you'd be splitting each transaction into 2 transactions. > > > > Cheers David H. > > > > On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 07:03, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have transferred money back and forth between bank1 and bank2. > 1. I first imported my transactions from bank2. > > 2. I then imported my transactions from bank1. > > The transfers between the accounts are matched and are therefore not > imported to bank1 (as expected). > > However, the dates of the transfers are correct in bank2 but incorrect in > bank1 because there is a 3-5 days delay for the transfers (and bank2 was > imported before bank1). > > > Is there any way to log the correct dates in bank1 (while also retaining > the > correct date in bank2)? > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
