If you just want to record one of the dates, but don't need to run
reports using it, pick one of the transactions (usually the first one)
and enter that with its date. You can then add the final deposit date in
one of the various fields: Notes, Action, Memo. (alternatively, record
it when you make the deposit, edit the date when it clears, and make a
note of the initial date instead)
If you need both dates available to run reports, use a clearing (or as
otherwise noted 'suspense') account. The first transaction is not to the
eventual account but to the clearing/suspense account. Then when it is
done, you make a transaction from that account to the real final
intended account. Your question sounds like a case of electronic
transfer from one account to another, so I'd go this route as you'll
want both dates as they affect two real-world accounts.
Otherwise, this sounds like the age-old issue of writing a check and it
not clearing the bank for a while. The simplest way to handle that is to
simply not worry about it and mark the transaction 'cleared' when you
find out it has been completed if you find that out before the next
statement. If not, you'd just reconcile it when you get that statement.
If this is a case of physical withdrawal and physical deposit from one
account then into another (rather than electronically) Any of the above
would work, but you'd have twice the entries. (I always try to model the
real-world activity as closely as I can.)
Regards,
Adrien
On 5/3/26 4:27 PM, Louise wrote:
I would like to ask how you folks deal with the 5 - 7 days between when
a withdrawal is made, and the resulting transfer is deposited.
It would be nice to have the withdrawal date and the deposit date
correct, but I see no way of making it happen.
It is only a small thing, but if I could I would like to remove the
"confusion".
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