Help with importer needed

[Scumbuster]

Hi

The reason I do it that way is because once it is in the checking account,
say,  it is "buried" within all the other transactions....

If I move everything onto "imbalance" first, I can then go through and split
he accounts as needed one at a time.....it works like the "uncleared
transactions page in Quicken used to....

My question is why in heaven's name it is assigning "estimate" and "bank
charge" to everything.

In the beginning, everything was "imbalance"...fine by me.



-----Original Message-----
From: Liz [mailto:edodd at billiau.net] 
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 2:32 PM
To: Scumbuster
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Help with importer needed

Scumbuster wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Upon importing a saved OFX file from my bank this morning for my 
> checking account in Gnucash, I found that the program is wanting to 
> mark all of my new transactions as either "estimate" or "bank
charge"..........
>
> When I was importing before, it was making most items "imbalanced, 
> which was fine....I would go into imbalance and reassign each 
> transaction to what it really was (car payment, cc payment, utility 
> etc).
>
> This may be due to my not understanding how the importer works.....it 
> confuses me with the check marks etc....
>
> Is there a tutorial somewhere that goes over how the importer works?  
> I could not find any info in the help menu.
>
> As it stands, I have to go into each transaction in the importer 
> screen and mark it "imbalanced, then go and change it once its in the 
> register......a few transactions I can properly assign in the 
> importer, where it's a single "split"....but not where one transaction 
> is pslt between, say, dining and state sales tax.....its painful.
>
> Thanks!

Why are you moving anything to "Imbalance"? You have found out how to move a
transaction to another place in your account tree, so put it where you want
it the first time.
Splits are impossible to import correctly - no one can predict what is
subject to tax and the percentage from the information from the bank.
Put your example in dining and then split it from there.