missing and 0.00 discovercard transactions

[David Reiser]

I have not seen the 0.00 amount on imports, but the 'missing'  
transactions can happen if you record some, but not all, of your  
transactions before you import the bank's list. What I think is  
happening is if two transactions are within a day or two and a dollar  
or two of each other, the import matcher thinks that two of the bank's  
transactions could be a match for a single transaction you have  
already recorded. During the second pass, when the matcher is  
finishing the import, it throws away the second possible match because  
the transaction already in the register has just acquired an ofx  
matching transaction.

Sometimes, if you reimport the same file after successfully finishing  
one import, the missing transactions now appear as tentative  
transactions to add to the register rather than match one already there.

I haven't been able to pin down all the aberrant matching problems  
well enough to file bugs. There is one bug that I have been able to  
reproduce and report.

The generic import transaction matcher does need some attention  
(beyond my skills at the moment).

Dave
On Aug 16, 2009, at 5:40 AM, Lauren Halverson wrote:

> I'm using the ofx connection from gnucash. (I think the menu selection
> is 'Actions->Online Actions->Get Transactions'.
>
> Lauren
>
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:57 PM, <fireflys_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> My first question would be how are you downloading transactions  
>> from discover card? I download them as qif file and haven't noticed  
>> any issues.
>>
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: Lauren Halverson
>> Sender: gnucash-user-bounces at gnucash.org
>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: missing and 0.00 discovercard transactions
>> Sent: Aug 15, 2009 17:17
>>
>> I've noticed some problems with using gnucash to download the
>> transactions from my discovercard.
>> Each month, some transactions do not download at all, and
>> additionally, extra transactions w/ a 0.00 amount show up.
>> The numbers of these do not seem to be equal (That is, I don't think
>> I'm getting a 0,00 transaction for each missing transaction). I've
>> tried setting the date range of the transaction request back to the
>> previous month to see if the transactions ever show up, but they do
>> not.
>> The 0.00 are not a big problem, but the missing ones are since it
>> means I need to keep every receipt and check each one against the
>> downloaded transactions to see which are missing.
>>
>> Does anyone else have this problem with Discover? Know of a fix?
>> Thanks,
>> Lauren
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