OFX Importer and Transaction Matcher
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Feb 13 11:41:04 EST 2005
"Berck E. Nash" <flyboy at gmail.com> writes:
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> I disagree that ANY uncleared transactions should be a candidate to
>> match.. However it's possible that the match-chooser algorithm can be
>> improved.
>
> Well, either the matching algorithm needs to get much, much better, or
> there needs to be a way to manually match transactions...
Agreed; most of my experience is with the QIF importer, not the OFX
importer. I don't actually have a good idea what the OFX importer's
algorithm does. I'm hoping that Benoit will chime in soon.
> I'll point this out-- in the years I was using Quicken, I don't recall
> that it ever failed to properly automatically match transactions. I
> understand that the traansaction matcher is probably still in its
> infancy and some paatience is needed. But my complaint is not simply
> that it's failing to automatically matching the correct transactions,
> it's not even giving me the correct transaction as an option to manually
> match! My only recourse has been to skip importing the transaction
> alltogether and manually mark it as clear. Then next time I import, I
> have to once again skip the transaction. It's really, really annoying.
> For EFTs with a description, sometimes I'll actually delete my manual
> entry off the transaction then import the version from the OFX file as a
> new transaction. This doesn't work for checks since the description is
> "CHECK".
>
> If offering up every uncleared transaction as a possible match is too
> much, how about every uncleared transaction with the SAME AMOUNT? It
> only makes sense.
>
> To give you a concrete example: Yesterday I tried to import a $100
> transaction and the ONLY ONE it offers as a possible match is a $40
> transaction! Yet there were TWO $100 uncleared transactions it should
> have listed as a match...
What are the dates of the transactions? The matcher should look for
<date> +/ <date_delta> and <amount> +/- <amount_delta>
> It's not like I'm dealing with more than 30-50 transactions a month...
> Most with different amounts. It seems like it really should be able to
> figure it out.
Agreed, it certainly sounds like you're hitting a deficiency in the
matcher.
-derek
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