On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 4:24 PM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Good for you on paying the balance each month. I also treat our credit
> cards as a "30 day net account". Why pay interest? For those who respond
> "then why not pay cash or debit card?" note that these
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> Thanks to all of you for your help!
>
> Tim
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: timothyscu...@yahoo.com
> > Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2023 11:33 AM
> > To: stepbystepf...@comcast.net; gnucash-user@gnucash.org
> > Cc: timothyscu...@yahoo.com
>
It would have been worse if it had been your bank. The CC is not your
money,
and it's likely it never was anyone else's either seeing as it is plucked
out of thin air these days.
A data breach can happen with any computerised account - or pen and ink,
come to that, so there is no need to be
wary
On Sunday, 19 November 2023 06:17:07 GMT Liz wrote:
>
> Certainly being involved in a major data loss made me wary about my
> credit card.
>
And that is a clear example of why, IMHO, one should enter txns "on the go"
(daily / weekly / whatever) and not rely on the bank's statement (or
On Sun, 19 Nov 2023 04:37:26 +
G R Hewitt wrote:
> What's not to like?
My credit card provider lost my data in a big hack.
So far my bank has done better, although hackers are everywhere now.
Certainly being involved in a major data loss made me wary about my
credit card.
Liz
I agree, enter the tx as you make them, it helps in keeping an eye on
spending
and is less tedious than when, at the end of the month, you have a large
'wad' to input.
I too, use my CC for everything and pay it off each month, but my reason is
that if I use my debit card and it gets compromised,
On 2023-11-18 14:23, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> On 11/18/2023 2:33 PM, timothyscu...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Ah. I think I see my error.
>>
>> When I get a credit card bill, I should open the credit card account
>> and enter each line item as a transaction. I should be able to check
>> my work
On 2023-11-18 14:23, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> For those who respond "then why not pay cash or debit card?" note that
> these days many things require "by credit card"
Could you give a couple examples of those "many things"? I can't think
of a single one. I _have_ seen the occasional gas
On 11/18/2023 2:33 PM, timothyscu...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ah. I think I see my error.
When I get a credit card bill, I should open the credit card account and enter
each line item as a transaction. I should be able to check my work by comparing
the balance on the account with my bill (I always
On 2023-11-18 11:02, Tim via gnucash-user wrote:
> I tried migrating my 10+ years of data. Thank you for the excellent
> migration tools. I was able to enter a few simple transactions but then when
> I came to entering a credit card payment, which I enter as a split
> transaction with line items
vember 18, 2023 11:33 AM
> To: stepbystepf...@comcast.net; gnucash-user@gnucash.org
> Cc: timothyscu...@yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: [GNC] noobie question about split transactions
>
> Ah. I think I see my error.
>
> When I get a credit card bill, I should open the credit card acco
; > Penny Novack
> > Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2023 11:20 AM
> > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: [GNC] noobie question about split transactions
> >
> > > I came to entering a credit card payment, which I enter as a split
> > > transaction w
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2023 11:20 AM
> To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] noobie question about split transactions
>
> > I came to entering a credit card payment, which I enter as a split
> > transaction with line items for every line item in the credit c
Hi Tim,
Welcome to Gnucash.
If you didn't receive an error message I suspect your transactions are
still there, perhaps in the auto created imbalance account which will be
right down the bottom of your accounts list on the accounts tab ?
Were you entering and searching from your credit card
I came to entering a credit card payment, which I enter as a split
transaction with line items for every line item in the credit card bill,
after I had spent many laborious minutes entering 50 or 60 line items I
accidentally hit enter and all of my work was deleted.
Stop right there. NOT a
I am a long-term Quicken user who is trying to kick the habit and move to
gnucash. I'm on Windows 11.
I tried migrating my 10+ years of data. Thank you for the excellent
migration tools. I was able to enter a few simple transactions but then when
I came to entering a credit card payment, which
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