Credits befroe debits

[John Morris]

I also just imported from Quicken to GnuCash and had the same problem. Looking online, I found a page that indicated that GnuCash sorts the transaction by when they were input, down to the second, even though it only shows the date of input. If two transactions have the same input date and time, which they would in an import situation, they are sorted by the Number field. That's what the web page said, but it does not quite match my experience. My transactions seem to uniformly put the debits before the credits and changing a transaction (which I expect to change the date and time of input) does not affect the order. 

  Of course, reentering all your transactions is not a good solution if you have many of them. You can switch the file from compressed to uncompressed (Preferences->General->Compress Files) and then edit the input times show using a text editor, but that may be pretty tedious. For myself, I corrected the few problems I could see in the last screenful of transactions and ignored the rest. I know that they balance out in the end, and I don't go back there very often.

  I agree that it would be nice to have better control over the order of presentation. At the very least, there should be a way to expose those input times in the GUI.

Best,
John

On Jul 18, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Patrick Laprocina wrote:

> I imported all of ny Quicken transactions into GnuCash. In my Quicken check register, all of credits for any given day were automatically moved to the beginning of the transaction list for that day, because that is the way that the banks all process transactions - credits then debits per day. When I looked in my GnuCash check register, the credits and debits were scattered about. The only time that I balanced with Quicken was at the end of the day. There were also many indications of overdrafts in GnuCash that did not occur.
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> I looked in the register settings and could find no option to process credits first. Where/how do I get GnuCash to process credits before debits per day to match my bank records?