Importing accounts/data as CSV

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Jan 12 18:17:48 EST 2017


On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, John Ralls wrote:

> Importing transactions is a lot more flexible and includes a wizard lifted
> from GOffice wherein you can assign the transaction and split fields to
> the appropriate column in your CSV file. It is limited in that it cannot
> handle transactions with more than two splits.

John,

   I'll look into 3rd-party tools because my mortgage is the only payment
with more than 2 splits: principle, interest, and escrow.

> There exist some 3rd-party tools that can convert CSV to QIF or OFX. Some
> of those might handle more complicated situations than GnuCash's CSV
> importer can.

   I assume that QFX would be preferable to QIF. Is this a correct
assumption?

Thanks,

Rich


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