Automatically reconcile interest charges

[Colin Law]

On 11 February 2015 at 21:41, Edward Doolittle
<edward.doolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 February 2015 at 15:19, AC <gnucash at acarver.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-02-11 07:15, Mark Phillips wrote:
>> > On the one hand, having the interest charge automatically cleared saves a
>> > mouse click. On the other hand, I appreciate the concept that there is
>> only
>> > one place a transaction can be cleared, and that is the reconciliation
>> > window. I sometimes have over a hundred transactions in a month to clear
>> (I
>> > don't download from the bank, I do it manually from the statement), and I
>> > have never had an issue finding that interest entry and clearing it with
>> > one mouse click. Maybe an option in the settings to allow automatic
>> > clearing of the interest charge?
>>
>>
>> I would be perfectly fine with an option to turn this on or off.  The
>> initial question was to find out if such an option already existed
>> within the program.
>>
>
> There is no such option that I can see, though I agree it would be
> appropriate. You might want to request it at
> http://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request . It shouldn't
> be difficult at all to add this feature.
>
> In the meantime you might want to use the account register instead of the
> dialog box to enter interest charges. In the account register you can mark
> the interest charge as cleared when you enter the transaction.

But make sure you don't do this until after starting the reconcile or
the opening balance won't be right.  In fact I don't know whether the
reconcile window would be confused by a transaction being entered and
cleared behind its back, so to speak.  One would have to try it.

Colin