dealing with invoices and QIF imports

[Leigh Morresi]

hi all

thanks for your feedback on this, so it sounds like charles is going to
take a closer look at the QIF importer account type mapping/checking?

Mapping my income payments to Import:QIF sounds good, in essense i guess
this means those QIF items just sit in a holding-queue and i delete them
once ive marked the corresponding invoice as payed, sounds good to me

i've been using this script of mine

http://dgtlmoon.com/qif_gnucash_python_preprocessor

to preprocess the QIF entries with some regex and put a corresponding
"L" cateory to them


cheers

leigh


On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 12:37 -0700, Charles Day wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
> wrote:
>         Quoting Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>:
>         
>         
>                                 The QIF is.   You should know that.
>                                  QIF Accounts are Asset/Liabilities.
>                                 Everything else is Income/Expense.  So
>                                 yes, there is a default account
>                                 type based on the actual QIF
>                                 transaction information.  Whether or
>                                 not
>                                 this is right or wrong I leave for
>                                 another day, but the way the QIF
>                                 importer is currently structured makes
>                                 it very hard to just remove
>                                 this....
>                                 
>                         
>                         I think the rules are looser than that for QIF
>                         payee/memo mappings, but
>                         maybe his QIF doesn't provide an payee or memo
>                         so a category mapping is
>                         getting used. It's true that if a category
>                         mapping is being used and a new
>                         GnuCash account is being created (checkmark
>                         appears in the mapping page),
>                         then the created account type will be Income
>                         or Expense. But regardless, if
>                         the user specifies (via the GUI) an existing
>                         GnuCash account to use for a
>                         category mapping, then in my opinion the
>                         importer ought to honor that choice
>                         regardless of account type (the commodity
>                         still must match). If it's not
>                         doing that, then that seems like a bug to me,
>                         or at least overrestrictive
>                         babysitting. What's your opinion?
>                         
>                 
>                 I just tried reproducing this, and in fact the QIF
>                 importer *does* allow a
>                 category to be mapped to an existing GnuCash account
>                 with an Asset account
>                 type. So that's not the problem.  -Charles
>         
>         
>         I believe it's a raw Payee/Memo mapping that is purely
>         Income/Expense.
>         So if the transaction has no L line, it's assumed to be
>         Income/Expense.
>         
>         
> 
> I can now reproduce this problem, but it's got nothing to do with the
> Asset account type. You can map to that type of account, no sweat. I
> believe the problem is that account types A/Receivable and A/Payable
> are completely unknown to the QIF importer. I could just add specific
> support for these two types, if you think that's good enough. Should
> be easy. But in general it really seems to me that if a user picks or
> approves use of an existing GnuCash account then the importer should
> use that account, regardless of account type, as long as the commodity
> matches (since we are still restricted to single-currency imports).
> That might be a bigger change though. Your thoughts?
> 
> 
>         -derek
>         
>         -- 
>              Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>              Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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>         
> 
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