It’s no biggie changing the date and many programs default on the.current date or the last entered. It’s fine with me if you just leave it alone. Besides, unless I’m mistaken, when I pull in a QFX, the system uses the date it cleared the bank, not the date entered or written.
> On Dec 29, 2022, at 6:48 PM, Fross, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > I, too, enter the receipts immediately. If I buy something online, it's > actually exactly the same time as the purchase. If it's a real store, it > gets entered once I'm home. Having it default to "today" is the right > answer for me. > > Michael > >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 5:23 PM Chris Skudder <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> FWIW, I'm another who enters most txn's on the same day I make them. >> IMHO, one of the great and beautiful advantages of GnuCash over >> Quickbooks Online (which I must use to do our church's accounts) - is >> that GC opens basically instantaneously. There's no network latency, no >> login, no "let's make sure it's really you" and "let's verify your cell >> number," no clicking thru "Don't you want to sign up for our payroll >> service, and our credit card processing service" and Lord knows what >> else, before I can do what "I" want to do, versus what Intuit wants me >> to do. >> For me, I can open the computer from standby, open GnuCash, enter the >> txn, and stash the receipt "off the deck" somewhere, quite a bit faster >> than try to find receipts later, find time, remember what they're for, >> + etc. >> Realizing everybody's different ... but my own 1 vote is to keep the >> date default "today", or at least to give a user the OPTION to default >> txn dates to today. >> So hooray for open source software, and for the talented and dedicated >> peep's who do the coding that I don't know how to do. >> Thank you to you all. >> Chris >> __________________________________________________________________ >> >> From: [1][email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2022, 12:00 PM >> To: [2][email protected] >> Subject: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 237, Issue 113 >> >> On 12/28/2022 11:11 AM, R Losey wrote: >> >> That would be an interesting poll (about when one enters data) >> >> References >> >> 1. mailto:[email protected] >> 2. mailto:[email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
