Glad to hear you sorted it out, Tom. Happy to help.
Cheers.
On 6 Apr 2026, at 11:46 PM, Tom Route36 <[email protected]>
wrote:
Deva,
Thanks for the advice. It took a bit more tweaking (explained
below); but I finally got to the report that I was looking for.
Basically, these were the steps needed with the Transaction Report
Options:
1. On the Accounts tab, in the Accounts window of that tab, I
selected my Interest Income account.
2. Also on the Accounts tab but in the Filter By... window, I
selected my bank accounts (Banks A, B, C).
3. On the Sorting tab, I set the Primary Key to "Account Name".
4. Also on the Sorting tab, I set the Secondary Key to "Other
Account Name".
5. Last thing on the Sorting tab, I checked the checkbox for
Secondary Subtotal.
The settings on the Sorting tab were the key bit of tweaking
needed. So I've attached a screenshot of the Sorting tab here for
clarity in case anyone else wants to do something similar for a
report. In this example of mine, the Primary Key was the Interest
Income account. And the Secondary Key was the Filter By... accounts
(Banks A, B, C).
Now that I know how to generate a report like this for the interest
earned subtotaled by bank account, the same technique should work
for any other income report I need subtotaled by payee. I just need
to specify the appropriate Primary and Secondary Key accounts
correctly.
Anyway Deva, thanks for getting me pointed in the right direction on
this. It's just what I needed.
Tom
On 4/6/2026 12:44 AM, Deva PS wrote:
Tom,
I have attached a screenshot of one tab on report options page. On that tab, try
setting the Filter Type to Include and select your Interest Income account in t
he next option on that tab. You might have to set the first option (Accounts) as
well (this will be your account where your Bank/A/B/C interest is deposited)
Cheers.

On 6 Apr 2026, at 10:32 AM, David T. [1]<[email protected]> wrote:
In my experience, if I'm interested in a particular data set and want to isolate
that data, I'd create a separate account for that data set. In your original ex
ample, this would mean assigning each of the interest amounts to bank-specific i
nterest accounts-- Income:Interest: Bank A, etc. Then, getting a report of inter
est by bank is simple-- select the various accounts and subtotal by account.
David T.
On April 5, 2026 8:37:33 PM PDT, Tom Route36 [2]<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Deva,
The Transaction Report kind of works. But it only works if each transaction is
a simple one that includes only 2 accounts each. In my example of Bank Interest
Income, that works only as long as the accounts involved are each bank account
(Banks A, B, C) and the specified Income account, which in this example is the I
nterest Income. As long as that's true, then the Transaction Report gives the c
orrect numbers for the income received sorted by payer and date. And the Grand
Total at the bottom of the report will also be correct.
Where the Transaction report idea breaks down though is if any of those transact
ions include 3 or more accounts each. In my example here, let's say that one of
the transactions at Bank A was a deposit, rather than a typical plain interest
payment. And that deposit consisted of a repayment of a $500 loan, plus $40 int
erest income received from that loan. Well the $40 is part of the Interest Inco
me that I'm trying to report on here. But because the $500 is also part of that
transaction, it gets added into the subtotal for Bank A as well, and it's also
included in the Grand Total of the report. So my report of Interest Income is $
500 more than it actually is.
How would I limit the report to including only the Interest Income, and excludin
g everything else (like the loan repayment)?
Is there a way to get what I'd probably call an Account Report, rather than a Tr
ansaction Report? That is, if I'm only wanting to get a report listing the cred
its and debits to my Interest Income account, is there some way of doing that?
Tom
On 4/5/2026 10:12 AM, Deva PS via gnucash-user wrote:
Hi Tom,
You can try the transaction report. On the Sorting tab in report options, you ca
n set primary total by Description and Secondary Total by Date. Assuming your no
menclature on Description for Bank A/B/C are consistent, it should get you close
to what you want.
Cheers.
On 5 Apr 2026, at 9:30 PM,[3][email protected] wrote:
From: Tom Route36 <[4][email protected] [5]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: Gnucash User <[6][email protected] [7]<mailto:[email protected]
g>>
Subject: [GNC] How to create a Chronological Income Report subtotaled
by Payee?
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Hi all,
I'm still learning my way around GnuCash when it comes to creating
reports.? And I'm a bit lost as to how to create an Income Report that
shows a list of all income transactions for a given time period for a
selected income account.? Getting the bottom line total income is easy.?
Where I need help is getting a detailed report of all the income
transactions in date order where those transactions are subtotaled by
payee.? That's the hard part -- at least for me.
I just re-read this preceding paragraph of mine; and it sounds confusing
even to me.? Let me try asking it differently.
Let's say I want to get a list of all interest payments that I received
from 3 banks (Banks A, B, C) over the past 3 months (Jan, Feb, Mar).?
For simplicity, we'll say that all three banks pay interest on the 5th
day of each month.? Here's the layout of the report that I would be
hoping to create.
Bank Interest Income Report (Jan thru Mar)
Bank A
? Jan 5? ?$12.30
? Feb 5? ?$11.20
? Mar 5? $10.10
Bank A Subtotal: $33.60
Bank B
? Jan 5? ?$15.00
? Feb 5? ?$14.30
? Mar 5? $11.10
Bank B Subtotal: $40.40
Bank C
? Jan 5? ?$10.60
? Feb 5? ?$9.00
? Mar 5? $12.30
Bank C Subtotal: $31.90
Total Bank Interest Income: $105.90
Is there a way to create a report similar to this kind of layout
directly within GnuCash?? If there is, I haven't found it yet.? If not,
does anyone have some advice about how to get a similar printable report
some other way using the GnuCash data?? Any help here would be welcome.
Thanks,
Tom
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