Inserting transactions with debit card, cheque and prepaid card

[Ronal B Morse]

On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 18:25 +0200, Claudio Corti wrote:
> Dear GnuCash experts,
> 
> I have some doubts about how to insert expenses payed with debit card, 
> cheque and/or prepaid card.
> I'd say that a prepaid card is an Asset, so I should first do a 
> transaction from my bank checking account to the prepaid card account 
> and then a transaction from the prepaid card account to the expenses 
> account, right?
> But what about debit cards and cheques? They are not assets, they're 
> just different ways of payment and, unlike my wallet, I don't have to 
> transfer anything from my checking account to them.
> Should I put in the transaction directly my checking account and write 
> in the notes if the payment was with debit card or cheque? Or is there a 
> better way to differentiate this kind of expenses?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Claudio

For Debit card transactions I use either POS (point of sale) or EFT
(electronic fund transfer) in the number field of the checking account
register. Any further info required goes into the memo field. 


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