Import bank transactions and mark bill as paid?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Remi Christiaan Cool <moreloci at gmail.com> writes:

> When I import a MD940 file from my bank ... the items are imported and
> booked ok, but I'm not able to manually set a bill to payed. The only
> way as far as I have discovered is to first pay the bill so a record
> exists and then select that record during the import procedure
> (R). Paying the bill when the import window is open, doesn't work, the
> entry doesn't show up. That's stupid because for that I have to
> examine my bankaccount first, make bookings manually and that's what I
> want to prevent. Another thing is that if you select a preexisting
> record in the import window, the data from the import is not used in
> the description/memo fields, the old entry remains unchanged.
>
> So is there a way to just mark a bill as payed or is there some other
> trick to make it work ... put a unique code somewhere so that bills
> are recognized somehow?

No.  You need to use Process Payment.

That's the only way to pay an invoice or bill.

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-derek

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