As a lurker on this list, I just wanted to say this "fuzzy QIF import"
with duplicate recognition would be the most *wonderful* feature.
Better even than OFX (ok, about equal to it in importance for me).
I enter all my checks manually, and anything large (so I have a
general idea how I'm doing),
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ouch. I'm starting to get a tad concerned about how "fuzzy" this matching
> is starting to get.
Well, as long as the user has to put a "stamp of approval" on the
matches, I think it's OK. I'm currently working on an overhaul of the
QIF code that
On Mon, 15 May 2000 21:18:16 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Glen Ditchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'd like the looser rules for matching imported entries with existing
>entries.
Ouch. I'm starting to get a tad concerned about how "fuzzy" this matching
is starting to get.
> The .
I'd like the looser rules for matching imported entries with existing entries.
The .qif files I get from my bank contain descriptions like
"CHQ#00452-0041093240" for a cheque. I suppose the digits after the dash are
some sort of tracking number; at any rate, when I type the cheque into
Gnucash
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
My question was
> > "With respect to reconciliation, when is the 'payee' field considered to
> > be reconciled?"
>
> I guess I missed your point because I don't understand what it means
> to reconcile a 'payee' field.
One aspect of reconciliation is the im
> On Sat, 13 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > > > As for changing "reconciled" transactions, it is unclear to me what
> > > > > relationship exists between the "transaction" and the "JEs".
> > > >
> > > > It is the JEs that get reconciled.
> > >
>
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > > As for changing "reconciled" transactions, it is unclear to me what
> > > > relationship exists between the "transaction" and the "JEs".
> > >
> > > It is the JEs that get reconciled.
> >
> > Right. But t
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > As for changing "reconciled" transactions, it is unclear to me what
> > > relationship exists between the "transaction" and the "JEs".
> >
> > It is the JEs that get reconciled.
>
> Right. But to what does the "Payee" belong?
I presume whoever you
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > As for changing "reconciled" transactions, it is unclear to me what
> > relationship exists between the "transaction" and the "JEs".
>
> It is the JEs that get reconciled.
Right. But to what does the "Payee" belong?
> I occasionally do change the date
>
> As for changing "reconciled" transactions, it is unclear to me what
> relationship exists between the "transaction" and the "JEs".
It is the JEs that get reconciled.
>
> Each JE would get reconciled separately. Therefore you could have a
> transaction transferring funds from one account
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > I'm not sure that I would allow you to alter the entry while it is
> > "reconciled". However, I would assume that you are happy to do it in the
> > "candidate" state.
>
> With Quicken, I often change reconciled entries.
> What I never do is change the
> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > In general, I think that we must assume no correlation between importing
> > > data and reconciliation. All that we know is that each entry imported
> > > from the bank must appear in the ledger and that it has cleared the bank.
> > > A JE must prog
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > In general, I think that we must assume no correlation between importing
> > data and reconciliation. All that we know is that each entry imported
> > from the bank must appear in the ledger and that it has cleared the bank.
> > A JE must progress throu
> In general, I think that we must assume no correlation between importing data
> and reconciliation. All that we know is that each entry imported from the
> bank must appear in the ledger and that it has cleared the bank.
> A JE must progress through the following "reconciliation states"
> 1) E
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Last time I looked, my bank's qif imports give me all the transactions
> since the last statement, not since the last qif import.
You should also be able to get the bank to export other periods.
In general, I think that we must assume no correlation betw
> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:50:09AM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> >
> > I was talking to someone about on-line banking & gnucash. I hadn't
> > thought about ti much, but a large part of on-line banking is
> > reconciling statements against what the bank has. Now, many 'online
> > banks' use QI
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Bill, see the note below.
>
> I take all of the points you made in an earlier message; you're right,
> reconcileing with QIF files is a potentially ill-defined, dangerous
> process. And yet, we still have the note below.
>
> It's been rumoured that Randolph Fritz
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Linas wrote:
> If I understand this correctly, and we did qif-based reconciliation,
> it would work as follows:
>
> -- randolph goes to bank web site, makes note of the banks current balance,
>and downloads a qif.
> -- he powers up gnucash, and picks 'reconcile-qif' from t
Bill, see the note below.
I take all of the points you made in an earlier message; you're right,
reconcileing with QIF files is a potentially ill-defined, dangerous
process. And yet, we still have the note below.
It's been rumoured that Randolph Fritz said:
>
> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:50
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:50:09AM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>
> I was talking to someone about on-line banking & gnucash. I hadn't
> thought about ti much, but a large part of on-line banking is
> reconciling statements against what the bank has. Now, many 'online
> banks' use QIF export as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Its not just 'matching them up', its also marking them as 'tentatively
> cleared' in the reconcile dialog.
I think this should be a separate step from the import. It makes
sense to store information with a transaction indicating "we've seen
this in a bank download
It's been rumoured that Bill Gribble said:
>
> Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Sooo (sound of lightbulb turning on) isn't the right way to import
> > QIF files is to run them through a reconcile-like dialogue?
>
> However, as you point out, downloading short snippets of QIF from th
Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sooo (sound of lightbulb turning on) isn't the right way to import
> QIF files is to run them through a reconcile-like dialogue?
That's a great idea for the "last step" of *some* QIF imports. I think
the most common usage of the QIF importer is still a
Food for thought:
I was talking to someone about on-line banking & gnucash. I hadn't
thought about ti much, but a large part of on-line banking is
reconciling statements against what the bank has. Now, many 'online
banks' use QIF export as a way of sending statements to users. Sooo
(sound of
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