ofx transaction description problem

William S Markley markleyws at earthlink.net
Mon May 14 20:34:00 EDT 2012


David,

Good idea, but I just checked this by getting transactions from American 
Express.  The same thing is happening there.
My bank is BofA.

Bill

On 5/13/2012 9:17 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 5/13/2012 10:39 PM, William S Markley wrote:
>    
>> I have been using gnucash and downloading transactions from my bank
>> with OFX.  Recently, the descriptions have been mixed up.
>>
>> For example, the description of a purchase at Stater Bros (grocery
>> store)  is now imported as "2 PURCHASE #651913 PALM SPRINGS CA;
>> STATERBROS126 05-11 CUSTOMER 927" instead of "STATERBROS126 05-11
>> CUSTOMER 9272 PURCHASE #651913 PALM SPRINGS CA; " as it was previously.
>>
>> This just started since I upgraded to gnucash version 2.4.10.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>      
> It probably is your bank's download service that has changed.  One of
> the banks that I use seems to change the format of certain transaction's
> descriptions from time to time.  Also, the format will be somewhat
> different for debit transactions vs credit transactions on the same card
> because they are processed differently.  It appears that some characters
> are truncated off the end of the description in your case.  I see that
> in some of my ofx downloads too, but for me it seems to vary depending
> on the source institution.
>
> David C
>    
>
>
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