QIF import wizard doesn't show memo's

David Stibbe dstibbe at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 18:22:08 EDT 2012


I'll do that. Thanks.

Kind regards,
David
Op 9 aug. 2012 19:43 schreef "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> het volgende:

> How about using the QIF (N)um column?  Leave the Payee blank, or put in
> the actual payee.
>
> -derek
>
> On Thu, August 9, 2012 1:26 pm, David Stibbe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the info.
> >
> > The payee is a number, because I converted my bank account's csv export
> to
> > a qif. Therefore I assigned the account number as the payee. Perhaps you
> > have a better idea?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > David
> >  Op 9 aug. 2012 17:19 schreef "Derek Atkins" <warlord at mit.edu> het
> > volgende:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> David Stibbe <dstibbe at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying to export a QIF file into Gnucash.
> >> > The QIF file consists of transactions and are recognised as such.
> >> However,
> >> > when I come to the screen where I have to match the Payee's to the
> >> gnucash
> >> > accounts, the column 'Payee/memo' only shows the payee and not the
> >> memo.
> >> >
> >> > An example from my QIF:
> >> > !Type:Bank
> >> > D20110630
> >> > T-154,76
> >> > P1234568
> >> > M Some other comment about the transaction
> >> > C
> >> > ^
> >> > D20101129
> >> > T-1,85
> >> > P1234567
> >> > MSome comment about the transaction
> >> > C
> >> > ^
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> >> Nothing.  The Payee always takes precedence over the Memo.  If a Payee
> >> exists QIF will always prefer it (and only display it).  The Memo only
> >> gets shown if there is no Payee.  This is by design.
> >>
> >> Why do you have Payees of numbers?  The Payee should be the actual, um,
> >> Payee.  Who did you pay with these transactions?
> >>
> >> > Kind regards,
> >> > David
> >>
> >> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> >> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> >>
> >> -derek
> >>
> >> --
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> >
>
>
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