Duplicate transactions & OFX imports

[David Carlson]

Hi Actinistia,

There are two things that you should do.  First is that since you have
chosen to use a liability account to track your credit card, your payment
to the card should not be an expense.  It is a simple transfer from the
bank to the credit card.
Second, since you use fox (spell checker refuses to spell) downloads, you
will either get stuck with duplicate transactions or you will have to be
careful to match the duplicate during your import.

Fox (how can I turn SSO off?) import assistant tends to be rather error
prone during the matching step so double chEC andtriple check before
accepting.

This will probably be the last time I use the Android version of Gmail to
compose an email

David C

On Aug 14, 2017 4:16 PM, "Actinistia" <brinston at ualberta.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm just learning Gnucash and am new to accounting software as a whole. The
> problem I am having is with duplicate transactions for credit card
> payments.
> One from my checking account statement which I import into my Assets -
> checking and then transfer to Expense - credit card payments. Another from
> my credit card statement which gets imported into Liabilities credit card
> which I then transfer to Assets - checking? That fixed the imbalance but
> leaves me with two entries in my checking account for the same transaction.
> Is there a way to mark them as duplicates and have Gnucash collapse them
> into one? Should I just delete one in such a case?
>
> From searching the forum the common advice is to import your checking and
> credit card (presumably savings as well) in one go so that the importer can
> flag duplicates. My problem is that I am having to import as OFX files
> which
> so far as I can tell does not allow for importation of multiple files in
> one
> go. Or am I missing something?
>
> Although my bank does have QIF as a download option they seem to be
> improperly coding the credit card QIF files and Gnucash reads them as if
> they are empty. I opened them in notepad and they do contain transactions
> so
> I presume its the coding that has been done incorrectly. Even if there is a
> way to remedy this I don't really want to fixing every credit card QIF and
> I've tried calling my bank for customer support and they have no idea what
> I'm talking about.
>
>
>
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