In my experience (admittedly limited), a debit card is a means to extract funds from an account—not an account on its own. Considered this way, it is simply a variant of a check, or of writing a withdrawal slip and handing it over to a teller (for those who remember those days). There is no need for a separate account type; “Bank” or “Asset” suffice.
Rick’s method will certainly work, although I have never bothered with that level of detail. David T. > On May 7, 2018, at 1:01 PM, Rick Copple <r...@copplecleaningservice.com> > wrote: > > On 05/07/2018 01:39 AM, Karen Stingel wrote: >> How does gnc handle the Case of a VISA Debit card? >> Technically, this is a BANK account with a VISA enabled card and a $0.00 >> Credit Limit >> Should it just be created as a normal BANK account type? > > How I normally handle mine is any transaction I make from my debit card, I > enter as a transaction in my bank account, usually using the word "Debit" for > the ref. number field. Of course, you could use any code word there you > wanted (ex. "Visa", "MC", "CCard", etc.) as long as you are consistent in > using the same term. But there is no reason to complicate things by creating > this as a separate bank account from the one your funds come out of. As to > the rest, I'll let the developers answer those, though I don't see the point > in not using the create a new account function in GNUCash itself to create > any new accounts you need, or to create a specialized function for handling > debit cards. > > -- > Rick Copple > Window Cleaning Specialist > <http://www.copplecleaningservice.com> > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
