dealing with invoices and QIF imports

[Derek Atkins]

"Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:

>         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?

Oh, in that case, yes, just add the a/r and a/p account types to
the lists of known assets and liabilities in the QIF importer.

-derek

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