I agree with Simon Roberts that this is a topic that should become more important as usage of these services expands.
In my household, we use Zelle, which, I think, is similar to Venmo. We only have a few transactions each month. I currently have scheduled transactions to use as boilerplate when regular periodic payments are involved. I also regularly import checking account transactions where the bank identifies Zelle transactions [in my case] with enough detail to assign appropriate expense, income or other destination account type and name. While this process is adequate for my usage, I am sure that GnuCash would benefit minimally with some descriptive entries in the Help manual or Tutorial to identify ways to enter such data. On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM Simon Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently brought my household accounts into GNC (I've been using this for > my business for a couple of years or so now). > > This has created a new-to-me problem, which is that we make some use of > Venmo. I would like to be able to download the records and import them as > nearly automatically as possible (probably obviously!) > > The problem is that so far as I can tell, Venmo's ability to provide > downloads of transactions is rather ... "strange". > > So far, all I've found is a CSV file download option, and that file is > bizarrely incomplete with respect to transfers to/from the host bank. (For > background and to save folks from laboriously describing the basics I'm > totally happy with the CSV handling of GNC in general, configuring it and > all that, but the Venmo records have some pretty severe omissions that need > "intelligence" to complete.) > > I'm guessing that I'm not the first to address this, although I failed to > find any discussion in the list archives or documentation (I will, however, > admit that my searching might have been utterly inadequate). So, rather > than spend ages of your reading time describing the problem, is there a > broadly accepted approach to handling the downloadable records from this > service? > > Thanks for any suggestions, > Simon > > > -- > Simon Roberts > 303 249 3613 > https://www.youtube.com/@DancingCloudServices > https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonhgroberts/ > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
