Duplicate transactions & OFX imports

Dave H hellvee at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 20:19:38 EDT 2017


David, I'm guessing you have auto replace turned on ? You you can turn it
off by clicking/pressing the right arrow to the right of the suggested
words below where you are typing and then sliding the slider to the left.

Cheers Dave H

On 15 Aug. 2017 9:33 am, "David Carlson" <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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