[GNC] Importing data from QuickBooks Online

Mon Jul 3 18:31:23 EDT 2023

Ken,

That’s a better theory than anything I’ve come up with so far. However, that would seem to get it backwards. Presumably, they might allow export of 2022 but not 2023. In my case, it was 2022 that failed.

If they managed to do something like that, how might they do it? The only idea I come up with would be some invisible characters in the text. But analysis shows no such characters.

Thanks for the suggestion.

--
Tom

A forest has no "value" to capitalism until it is cut down.

> On Jul 3, 2023, at 5:41 PM, Ken Pyzik <pyz01 at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Tom -- I believe at the beginning of 2022, QuickBooks went from being a desktop and online software package  - to being strictly/only online.  With that transition, I believe they also gave a one-year period where you could export data.  While this may be a stretch, I believe that they may have somehow added a change flag or some other thing to the data to prevent you from exporting it as easy as it used to be.  This could be the discrepancy you are experiencing.  In other words, to prevent people from doing what you are exactly trying to do -- they may have placed a simple data offset or some other thing into the data to prevent easy export.  Again, this could be a stretch -- but it would explain why one year comes over correctly and the next does not.  Just my two cents -- for what it is worth ( which could be nothing at all!)
> 
> Ken   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+pyz01=outlook.com at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Tom Olin via gnucash-user
> Sent: Monday, July 3, 2023 1:55 PM
> To: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Importing data from QuickBooks Online
> 
> Good shot, but no, date formats are consistent.
> 
> --
> Tom
> 
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>> On Jul 3, 2023, at 4:52 PM, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I am likely grasping straws here like David but did you verify the format of the date that it is consistent throughout? Like it isn’t switching from two digits to four digits, or replace certain digits with place holders, etc. QuickBooks is (was?) published by the maker of Quicken and I remember their exports when it came to Quicken was all over the map for the format of the date and ended up normalizing it with an external script when I did a full migration from Quicken to GNC. By far this, the date format, was biggest PITA.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Olin <tom at tomolin.net> 
>> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2023 12:14 PM
>> To: Jean L <ripngo at gmail.com>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Importing data from QuickBooks Online
>> 
>> Jean,
>> 
>> Thanks for that. I did play with a few similar options but couldn’t get anything to work easily. Some were aimed more at Quicken or QuickBooks desktop instead of QuickBooks Online.
>> 
>> As it turns out, my minimal script seems to work very well with this one weird anomaly. The nature of it suggests something that should be easily worked around - if I can just figure out what it is.
>> 
>> --
>> Tom
>> 
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>> 
>>> On Jul 3, 2023, at 12:04 PM, Jean L <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This may be slightly off topic, or too late to help, but...
>>> 
>>> In github, there is a repository
>>> https://github.com/tim-rohrer/move2gnucash
>>> That seems pretty well setup to migrate your data from a quicken csv export to GC. I haven't used it, but I looked at it for a friend and it looked interesting.
>>> 
>>> Jean
>>> 
>>> On 7/3/2023 8:59 AM, Tom Olin via gnucash-user wrote:
>>>> [Resending to the list. Original reply went only to Jim.]
>>>> 
>>>> Jim,
>>>> 
>>>> Fair questions. Answers below, and I’ve attached the script itself which includes documentation which addresses some of the questions. I’ve reviewed all documentation that I can find.
>>>> 
>>>> From QBO, I export a journal report to XLS (only usable option in QBO).
>>>> 
>>>> GnuCash 5.3 on macOS 11.7.8
>>>> 
>>>> See the script for the specific steps.
>>>> 
>>>> The import matcher step of the import process is fully satisfied. That is the step labeled “Match Import and GnuCash accounts”.
>>>> 
>>>> The  problem manifests at the “Match Transactions” screen where all transactions need to be matched. I’ve attached a screenshot if it is supported here.
>>>> 
>>>> One more data point: I tried changing one of the transactions in the 2022 import file to 2023. It still failed the same way.
>>>> 
>>>> —
>>>> Tom
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 2, 2023, at 11:55 PM, Jim DeLaHunt<list+gnucash at jdlh.com>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tom:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2023-07-02 15:10, Tom Olin via gnucash-user wrote:
>>>>>> I’m attempting to import data from QuickBooks Online to GnuCash. I’ve written an awk script which appears to work well except for one major issue.
>>>>> What format is the data which you export from Quickbooks Online? CSV (Comma Separated Values text files with tabular data)? QFX (Quicken Financial Exchange, similar to OFX)?
>>>>> 
>>>>> What GnuCash version are you using? On what computer OS?
>>>>> 
>>>>> What GnuCash sequence of actions do you use to import the data?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The data I’m importing spans the years 2022 and 2023. All 2023 transactions import cleanly, but all 2022 transactions import unbalanced, meaning I have to manually match up each of them - doable but tedious.
>>>>> Let's assume you are exporting data in CSV format, and using the current version of GnuCash (5.3), and importing using the File… Import… Import Transactions from CSV menu item. You should be directed through an import matcher. This is the place where GnuCash should assign accounts to balance each transaction. Is each transaction assigned to an account in the import matcher?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Have you read the section of the documentation explaining how to import data?
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Can anyone think of anything that would cause this behavior? I’ve ruled out Accounting Period. I’ve imported each year separately. I’ve exported each year separately from QBO. The behavior persists.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I’m stumped. Any ideas?
>>>>> I hope these questions help get enough information on the table to give someone ideas.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>  —Jim DeLaHunt
>>>>> 
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