My workflow is remarkably similar but my transactions are marked as "y" when they get reconciled :-)
I wouldn't mind also being able to flag a transaction as 'p' = pending for the pending credit card transactions and 's' = scheduled when I have scheduled a future transaction in online banking but I was told previously that it's a binary value even though it transitions from 'n' to 'c' to 'y' in my world !!! Cheers Dave H. On 30 January 2018 at 11:36, Buddha Buck <blaisepas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's the workflow that I ideally go through. > > During the month, I order something online using a credit card. > > When I enter the transaction into GnuCash, the split associated with the > transaction in the credit card account is tagged "n". > > The next day, I check my online banking, and I see that the credit card > company considers the transaction "pending". I leave it tagged as "n". > The next day, I check again, and now the transaction is charged against my > account, and is no longer "pending". I tag the entry in GnuCash as "c", > cleared. > > At the end of the month, I receive my statement, and I run the > "reconciliation" process in GnuCash. GnuCash automatically cherry-picks > "cleared" transactions for me, and I look for any discrepancy (transactions > that haven't cleared, or transactions on the card I don't have recorded, > etc). When I am satisfied that all is well, I tell GnuCash that the > reconciliation is complete, and it marks the reconciled transactions as > "r". In the future, when you go to reconcile the next month, it won't > consider the ones already reconciled. > > GnuCash also shows multiple balances for an account: a current balance, a > future balance, a reconciled balance, and a cleared balance. At any given > time, the "cleared balance" should match match what the online banking says > it should be, the "reconciled balance" matches your last statement balance. > > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:59 PM Mark Hedges <mark.hed...@weirdvibe.com> > wrote: > > > Thanks all. > > > > I don't understand the difference between "cleared" and "reconciled" > > in Gnucash context. Someone mentioned that one changes R from "n" to > > "c" when they see the charge in their bank statement or online > > banking. How is that different in terms of information flow from > > using the reconciliation feature to do exactly the same thing? I > > still end up having to cherry-pick individual transactions to make the > > balance work out. > > > > Regarding the Num field, I understand that this would be a check > > number if anyone paid for much with checks anymore. For checking visa > > or ACH transactions, am I supposed to record the transaction number > > from the bank online balance sheet or statement? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
