How does GnuCash import OFX double entry transactions?

Ngewi Fet ngewif at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 16:28:27 EST 2013


Thanks for that clarification!


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ngewi Fet <ngewif at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > I was wondering if someone can explain to me how GnuCash for desktop
> > handles importing double entry transactions from OFX files. There is an
> OFX
> > BANKACCTTO tag which specifies the destination account when used in
> > conjunction with BANKACCTFROM. (see attached sample OFX)
> >
> > But it seems to be ignored during import. Does GnuCash take this into
> > consideration or am I missing something?.
>
> No, gnucash does not take this into account.  The importer is one-sided,
> and doesn't consider your use case.  The OFX importer doesn't auto-map
> both ends of a transaction together.  And the FITID is unique per
> account, you are allowed to have the same ID in multiple accounts and
> and not assume that it's the same transaction.
>
> Moreover, OFX does NOT support split transactions.
>
> > Right now, users of the Android app need to manually match double
> > transactions again on the desktop which is a lot of work.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> If you want to have your app supply both ends of the same transaction
> then you should use QIF, which supports what you are trying to do.
> There's no way to do it with OFX.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Ngewi
>
> -derek
>
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