OFX Importer and Transaction Matcher

[Derek Atkins]

Wait, are you talking about OFX importer or the QIF importer?

-derek

"Berck E. Nash" <flyboy at gmail.com> writes:

> I converted to GnuCash from Quicken some months ago and have found the 
> GnuCash transaction matcher to be less than adequate.  It makes some 
> really bad choices when it comes to matching transactions.  Sometimes it 
> ignores check numbers (which should be a GIVEN match), it matches things 
> with different amounts but similar names...  How can a transaction be a 
> match if they're different amounts?!?
>
> I've been unable to find out if I can do anything to tweak the way the 
> matching works, but have been content to go through and manually fix all 
> its mistakes until recently.
>
> The last couple of weeks I've been unable to match some transactions 
> manually!  The transaction matcher only presents the wrong transactions 
> as choices, and doesn't display the correct ones!  It seems like ANY 
> uncleared transaction should be a candidate for a match, particularily 
> transactions with the same check numbers and amounts!
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?  Should I check and/or file a bug report?
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