Please do not confuse importing transactions with reconciliation. While you must develop a procedure that is efficient, the OFX import is very error prone and needs to be checked against another reference.
David C On Feb 15, 2018 6:16 PM, "DaveC49" <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Any matching procedure on an import is not going to be perfect. Make the > criteria too tight and almost nothing is matched. Too loose and everything > is matched, so it is always a compromise. > > I have found the order in which I process the OFX imports from my various > accounts can have some impact on matching or at least the number of > transactions to an account which will be matched. I have one bank general > purpose account from which transfers to other accounts (credit card, > account > connected to Paypal, savings accounts) are more common so I usually import > it first as there are then a smaller number of transactions in the other > accounts which are automatically matched so they are easier to check. If I > import the other accounts first then the odds of a mismatch are increased > and there are many more matches to existing transactions. > > Perhaps one of the developers may be able to comment on how the matching > occurs, but I would imagine it is first a match on the amount and then on > proximity of the dates. The README on the Github gives some idea of how the > importer works although not detail of its opearation. > > At best matching on the importer can only be a guide and its results always > need to be checked. I usually find any errors I haven't picked up at import > when I do a reconciliation against the issued statements but my bank now > only issues statements six monthly on some accounts and quarterly on others > and only my credit card has a monthly statement (one example of the many > improvements to customer service) so it takes longer to find errors now. > > There are also a number of previous discussions of matching in the > archives. > I odn't hthink the code has changed a lot recently. > > David > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.