Jean and Adrien, I use QFX and reconciling is a pain! When I import and data from my bank and begin reconciliation I often find the GNC has ignored the existing unreconciled transactions and created new cleared ones.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 3:51 PM Jean L <rip...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think you can "tweak" the OFX import. OFX import relies on an > external library (ofxlib I think?). > Are the dates way off? I've never noticed anything weird like that in my > own OFX imports (which I do a lot of) the dates seem to always coincide. > > This *could* be a problem with the OFX created by your bank. If you're a > programmer, you might want to write a small program to edit the OFX file > before importing (I have to do that for citibank because of unique ID > issues). > > J > > On 12/30/2022 1:35 PM, Simon Roberts wrote: > > Beginner/refugee from QuickBooks here (more context below if you > > care). I'm working in a scratch file, so I can do stupid things while > > learning without damaging anything "important". > > > > I'm working with importing my bank transactions using OFX format (though > > I've also tinkered with CSV, and am willing to use that if it > > solves my problem). > > > > I imported some transactions using OFX. Several things surprised me, but > > the one that I think needs resolving first is that the transaction dates > do > > not match the bank statement. > > > > Earlier I tried the CSV import and saw there were *two* date fields > > (presumably difference between being received and being acted on? > > > > Can someone tell me what I should do to fix this? Is there a way to > "tweek" > > the OFX import, or do I need to use CSV? Or is this something else > entirely > > that's gone amiss? > > > > Thanks for any hints, > > Cheers, > > Simon > > > > Background in case it's relevant: > > > > I'm a refugee from Intuit, and very early in my learning process. > > > > I"m not a bookkeeper, I'm a programmer. Conversely, my bookkeeper isn't a > > software person--she would have continued paying the annual ransom to > > Intuit but I'm sick of their hostage taking. Of course this means I need > to > > do a decent part of the legwork for this transition. > > > > Of course because I'm not a bookkeeper, I don't understand the accounting > > side of this stuff, and likely won't know how to ask/phrase the > questions. > > > > Neither of us are going to be great at searching the documentation since > it > > seems like the terminology is different between GC and QB (and I don't > > really know the terminology anyway) > > > > So, please forgive the idiot question, and if the simple answer to a > > question is RTFM, we're very happy to do so, but likely are asking as > we've > > failed to find the relevant part of said references. > > > > Anyway, thanks for your indulgence :) > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
