two transactions per payment

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Thursday 26 June 2008 3:35:06 am Des Dougan wrote:
> Michael Barkowski wrote:
> > My wife Jackie regularly downloads two files named cibc.ofx and
> > cibcvisa.ofx from CIBC (Canadian Bank of Commerce), from the checking
> > account and the VISA account respectively.  She is using gnucash (1.8.x)
> > under Fink on Mac OS X Panther 10.3.
> >
> > The program is, to a certain extent, remembering which accounts different
> > transactions are associated with, for example the electricity bill.
> >
> > Double-entry accounting is great and we understand it.
> >
> > However, there's one thing it doesn't deal with very conveniently.  The
> > OFX files of the two accounts have no relation to each other, but we need
> > GnuCash to relate them when we transfer between the two accounts.
> >
> > When a payment is made transferring money from Checking to Visa, each OFX
> > file has it's own entry, and gnucash makes a transaction for each of
> > these. So in the end we have two transfers from Checking to Visa
> > recorded, and the accounts are wrong by the amount of the payment.
> >
> > Is there any way we can coax GnuCash to handle this better?
> >
> > Thanks and best regards,
>
> I have a similar situation with my Vancity accounts. I have found the
> way to deal with this is to not reconcile the payment in the chequing
> account on the first pass, but to run the import again after I have
> imported the Visa account information.
>
> The import will see only the transaction you bypassed and you will then
> be able to match it to the Visa transaction.
>
>
> Regards,

Exactly what I do, import them one at a time, not together.  When you import 
the second account, say the Visa, the transaction is already there from the 
Checking Account and will show up in the matching window. 

Doug L.