GNC uses single matcher engine for all imports which I must say is very, very good. Once it is trained up, it should suggest to put things into right buckets as the contra side of the transaction. There also ability to add, update, ignore and reconcile for each transaction imported via ofx/qfx or csv engines.
If you are going to perform pure imports without inputting transactions ahead of time then issue of double entry does not arise. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Kamen <b...@benkamen.net> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2023 4:10 AM To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash preferred OS - Windows or Linux On 7/26/23 7:37 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: > Welcome to GNC. > > I am on Windows 11 platform where I seem to find it that I get into less of > troubles when it comes to getting it installed and, up and running. I have > been versed in all three platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac) but I find it > easier to work with it in Windows. There are some manual one time install > intervention needed (installing Perl for example; figuring out Linux > equivalent paths for customization and backups) but it is not that earth > shattering as I believe lots of kinks has been worked out, documented here > and there, there is user contributed work around if need to resort to it and > this user group which is active. > > At the end of the day, don't let GNC dictate which platform you want as more > of let your utility of the platform dictate what platform to run it on. All > three platforms are supported so you are in IMHO good hands, albeit different > platform may exhibit different bugs or un-published features per release. I > do now and then flip the platform between Linux and Windows as a convenience > but stay mostly on Windows. Got it. > I use XML as the backend for storage which works well even considering that > it is medium to large size book. It provides easiest ways to recover, share, > fix and rollback (take a checkpoint or copy before "experimenting") should > there be a problem. That's good to know too. Thanks! > I am covert from Quicken so I have learned great deal of lessons from > conversion especially getting to learn double entry system - start with zero > and end with zero 😊. > > As a convert, I did lose a lot of automated download via direct connect or > Quicken Web Express but since most financial institution allows download of > transactions in OFX/QFX or CSV format, I simply just download it in OFX/QFX > format and import to bring transactions up to date or I'll put together > something crude in shell script to convert CSV to QIF format and import it as > QIF format. That's a good item as well. My bank allows CSV, QFX and QBO formats while my credit cards allow CSV and QFX. If I have to do the downloads manually (as long as I avoid double entry of every transaction), that would work out fine too. Thanks for the info, -Ben _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
