This is not expected behavior. I never happens to me, in fact ofx import usually works just fine. There might be something off in your preferences. You could try to go into "import" and adjust the "likely match day" threshold and the "Unlikely match day threshold". Mine are set to 4 and 14, which I believe means that two dates less than 4 days apart are considered a good match, while dates more then 14 days apart are a "no match" and there's a continuous in between. Hover over the + sign to get a help balloon.

If that's not the issue, there has to be a reason why GC does not consider the transactions you've entered for a match. The issue is either a date mismatch or an amount mismatch. If you let GC enter the transaction for you (instead of matching the existing one) can you see a mismatch between the dates and amounts of each transaction?

On 12/30/2022 2:20 PM, Phyllis Bruce wrote:
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 :)
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