Spending less time entering transactions, tips?

[jmk]

I would also be very interested in this script, thanks.

On 11/28/2015 08:36 AM, elvis wrote:
> Hi Jmk,
>
> I have a script that matches transaction descriptions and changes them
> to what you want.
>
> It can also add in Australian GST or I guess VAT if needed. I've never
> seen a good way of inputting this in Gnucash, I wonder how other
> people do it without going insane.
>
> It operates on a qif file.
>
> If you want I can post it or a link to it.
>
> Cheers
>
> On 28/11/15 23:41, jmk wrote:
>> I have recently taken on responsibility for several more personal
>> finance accounts that I'll be tracking in GnuCash (I got married -- one
>> of the perks I suppose ha ha). I'm trying to figure out ways to reduce
>> the time I spend in the program entering/correcting transactions. In
>> other unnamed pieces of software I've used in the past downloaded
>> transactions could be "trained" to automatically match a payee name and
>> then change the description text and category appropriately. As far as I
>> can tell gnc uses Bayesian matching of previous transactions to
>> determine the account to assign to, but you still need to go through
>> each transaction and correct the description if you don't like the
>> downloaded name.
>>
>> e.g. downloaded transaction: THE FOOD SHOPPE RETAIL STORE #043
>>
>> I would have to correct this to "The Food
>> Shoppe<period><backspace><tab>" and then hopefully it gets the account
>> assignment right (doesn't always work). It would be great if it would
>> just auto match this description and correct it for me. I don't think
>> this exists in GnuCash (or does it?) but I wanted to ask if there are
>> any user scripts or something that could assist with this. Thanks!
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