GnuCash Android App Support

[Liz]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:58:11 +0100
Jesus M Diaz <jesusm.diazperez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I am also trying to undesrtand the way Android App works
> (GNUCashMobile / GCM) with Descktop GNUCash (GCD).
> 
> I've set few accouts up at GCM:
> 
> VISA
> Wallet
> Breakfast
> Lunch
> Papers
> 
> Also, I've checked the 'double-account' option at GCM.
> 
> So when I pay for my dayly breackfast I create a new transaction from
> 'wallet' to 'breakfast', or if y take my lunch, from 'visa' to
> 'lunch'.
> 
> Now I try to move the transactions to GCD. I export the file without
> any trouble, and then I import the OFX file into GCD:
> 
> 1. one after one, first time I import the file, GCD ask me to match
> the detected GCM account to a GCD one. I do:
> 
> GCM VISA -> GCD Pasivo/Tarjetas/VISA Renfe
> GCM Wallet -> GCD Activo/Circulante/Metalico/Bolsillo Jesus M
> GCM Breakfast -> GCD Gastos/Cafeteria
> GCM Lunch -> GCD Gastos/Restaurantes/Comida
> GCM Papers -> GCD Gastos/Extras/Periodicos
> 
> No problems till now.
> 
> 2. Now I get a window with the detected transactions and three optios
> for eache one: A (add a new transaction), U+R (update a transactions
> and reconcile) and R (just look for matching transactions and
> reconcile them).
> 
> The list shows me every transaction twice: from the expense and from
> the pay-way point of view. I mean:
> 
> tr1: 10/03/2013 / 2.20€ / Breakfast  <- breakfast account point of
> view tr2: 10/03/2013 / -2.20€ / Breakfast  <-  wallet account point
> of view tr3: 10/03/2013 / 10€ / Lunch <- lunch account point of view
> tr4: 10/03/2013 / -10€ / Lunch <- visa account point of view
> 
> Here my problems start:
> 
> If I check 'A' GCD creates four transaction:
> 
> tr1: 10/03/2013 / 2.20€ / Breakfast : from imbalance-EUR to
> Gastos/Cafeteria tr2: 10/03/2013 / -2.20€ / Breakfast : from
> Gastos/Cafeteria to imbalance-EUR
> tr3: 10/03/2013 / 10€ / Lunch : from imbalance-EUR to
> Gastos/Restaurantes/Comida
> tr4: 10/03/2013 / -10€ / Lunch : from Gastos/Restaurantes/Comida to
> imbalance-EUR
> 
> If I check 'U+R' or 'R', I got reconcilied a previous transactions
> that matched TR3, but nothing for TR1, 2 and 4
> 
> So, is this the expected way for importing GCM files or (I hope so) I
> am doing something wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance!!
> 
> Jesus M Diaz

I found the import going wrong too.
If I matched the incoming "Expense" to an expense account and the
incoming "Credit Card" to a credit card I got identical debit and
credit entries in each account, net change zero.
Obviously it wasn't net change zero, as I had spent money.
I tried several times and fiddled with the incoming accounts until I
got the transactions to appear rationally.

Usually I import ofx (or qif) from a bank, and their credit is my debit
and so one, but this time the credit needs to remain credit, and the
debit remain a debit.
I wonder if this is how the import goes wrong.

Liz