Tracking stocks and sales - improving GnuCash

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:02:39 -0800
Todd Wells <ttop at mac.com> wrote:

> <<<Munch>>>
> Is there a way to turn off the "transaction memorization" feature?  Sometimes this is useful, but when the last memorized transaction is a split, it's kind of a pain.

This is something I've asked about too, though in another form. 

My issue was that I often enter large batches of receipts and have found it easier (less click intensive) to enter them all from one register, even if it actually involves a different register.

For example, while working in my checking register, if I run across a credit card receipt, I will just enter the trn in the current register, but instead of the balancing split crediting checking, I change it to the credit card account. When the transaction is entered, it vanishes from the current register, of course, but is entered and works great. very handy. 

HOWEVER, there exists in my checking register a handful of trns to a specific payee that are USUALLY charged on the cc. So, the register, correctly, recalls local trn and requires much hand editing to make it work. Still, imo, this is better than clickety-clicking my way to the other account. 

What I would like to see is a way to build a "master-list" of trns (Quicken calls them "memorized") that overides the locally built recall-list. In your case this would allow you to memorise the non-split version of your transaction and have that take precedence over anything that appears in your current register.

BTW, the work-around for my situation involves entering everything in the general ledger as the quick-fill or auto-complete then includes ALL transactions. not much help in your situation.

A

> 
> All in all, GnuCash seems to be a pretty well-built piece of software, and I appreciate that.  But to appeal to the consumer (and not just the hard-core accounting types), it needs a little more polish, in my opinion.  I hope to continue to use GnuCash.  If I understood accounting at a higher level I would consider contributing as a programmer, but alas my accounting knowledge is fairly simplistic and I don't have any experience with guile.
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> Thanks for your ears,
> 
> -Todd
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