Perhaps, before importing, add a "Groceries" sub account to your expenses account. Then, instead of importing the entire checking account from your bank, just import a month's worth of records or so. In the matcher step, assign transfer accounts accordingly. Then import the remaining records for that checking account from your bank. This lets you teach GnuCash how to assign, at first, then on the second import, GnuCash does most of the work on the majority of the records.
Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Pixel 3) On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, 18:20 David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome to GnuCash and to the GnuCash-User Maillist. > > GnuCash is set by default to "remember" the transfer account assignment and > to attempt to make the same assignment to similar looking transactions in > future imports. It uses a process called Bayesian Matching, which is not > perfect, but it usually makes pretty good guesses after a training process. > > When you import transactions there is a step where you assign a "transfer" > account to each transaction or, after the first time, you approve GnuCash's > guess or override it with your correct information. If you do not make > corrections in that step, GnuCash cannot "learn" the correct assignments, > and it may even make more "misteaks" later. > > David Carlson > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 5:24 PM Bitmancer <isaac.a.stodd...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Just starting out to use GnuCash. Imports fine from my bank to my > Checking > > account. > > Now I have to make sense of it all! > > > > In the Checking ledger, there are many different creditors. For example, > > "Kroger" in the Description field. How can I label all "Kroger" entries > > with > > "Expenses:Groceries" in the Transfer column? If I can make this happen, I > > can do all my repetitive transactions and catch up on 8 months of data > > faster. > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from: > http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > -- > David Carlson > _______________________________________________ > 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.
