OFX Transaction Matching [Was: Re: Another one unhappy with quickfill]

[Jeff Kletsky]

Mike,

If you were thinking about accounts already tracked by your books, that 
sounds like a relatively straightforward report to me, rather than a 
feature, per se.

Yeah, I know, scheme isn't, well, umm,...

On 01/18/2011 05:33 AM, Mike C. wrote:
> As a suggestion for an upgrade, I miss the investment analysis that
> Quicken provided.  It would be a benefit to have the ability to provide
> a list of investments and their internal rate of return for a specified
> period and gain or loss for each investment.
> Mike
> On 1/17/2011 11:37 AM, Mike Leone wrote:
>> On 1/17/2011 12:23 PM, Jeff Kletsky wrote:
>>> Thanks for the suggestions -- reports of any other annoyances would be
>>> most welcome before I dive into the code in a few weeks.
>>>
>>> One of the things that I am considering is improving the UI and code so
>>> that potential matches are shown and can be selected.
>>>
>>> I often have similar transactions for the same payee that are matched to
>>> the same journal transaction. With parking meters taking credit cards
>>> now in San Francisco, this is going to be even more of an issue.
>> I use my debit card to pay for most things in the same way. Saves me
>> from having to carry cash.
>>
>>> Another problem is the "auto-match" matching something that isn't even
>>> close to what it should be. I have a suspicion that some of it is that a
>>> match on "Account unknown Bank unknown" is treated as a "positive match"
>>> even though it is pretty meaningless.
>> In my case, I have a number of scheduled transfers that occur from my
>> local bank checking account to an account at ING Direct (an online bank)
>> - scheduled from my bank, not in GNUCash. And of course, the matcher has
>> no idea what to do, since all the transactions say "ING Direct" and
>> "Generic debit". That's understandable, since the OFX transaction
>> doesn't list the account number of the ING account, which would make the
>> job of transaction matching a lot easier.
>>
>> But the amount is the same, week after week. Ideally, the matcher should
>> (hopefully) see that recently there was an transaction to ING for $11,
>> and that the account was "Savings for new TV", and suggest that. And
>> since the amounts vary, it shouldn't suggest that account if the amount
>> is $12 (since that's the weekly amount that transfers to the account
>> "Savings for new camera").
>>
>> I realize that is almost certainly more difficult than it looks like
>> (most programming is, and I haven't done any programming since the early
>> 90s). But it would help me a lot. Especially since I don't use GNUCash's
>> scheduled transactions.
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