Creating a file to import in GNUCash

[Thomas Goirand]

Hi Derek,

On 06/12/2011 11:05 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Alas, right now QIF is single-currency only.  You cannot (currently) do
> this.

I read otherwise on the GNUCash bug tracker, that there IS some
multi-currency QIF files, but that the author of GNUCash didn't know how
it looked like. Issue is: me either, I don't know how to produce one,
and I didn't find examples online. I thought about downloading the free
version (trial?) of Quicken to try, but failed to find where to download
it. I'll try again...

Then if I succeed in doing this, I'll try to modify GNUCash if it's
needed (I know the C language, and I'm a Debian developer, so it's up to
my level...).

At the end, I think I'd might need to ask for help in the GNC devel list.

> I couldn't answer you about how hard it would be.  My
> recommendation would be to do the import in EUR into an EUR account, and
> then you can do a bulk transfer from EUR to GPB.

Is there a way to do that in an automated way in GNUCash? Because the
goal is to do automation you know. So I all but want to do it
transaction by transaction! I'd need to transfer the full of my newly
imported EUR account into the GBP sales account...

> Either that or do the conversion ahead of time and import it all as GBP.

Well, the issue is that at the end, the Paypal account has to stay in
EUR (because that's reality), but the sales account IS in GBP for the
accounting... So I have no choice here.

Thomas