[GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

Mon Jul 27 17:47:01 EDT 2020

Hi Christopher.  Alas I do not keep the QFX files.  I'll hang on to them
for now and see if the FIDID does change.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 4:20 PM Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As I understand the ofx spec*, the fitid should be an invariant for the
> bank and account. By any chance do you have older qfx files to compare?
>
> * https://www.ofx.net/downloads.html
>
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020, 4:34 am Fross, Michael, <michael at fross.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jean / John for your thoughts.  There is a register entry that
>> matches, IMHO, very closely.   I increased the Match Display Threshold
>> from
>> 1 to 3, and then to 6 (which appears to be the highest value allowed.)
>> Every transaction from the import says "Match Missing."
>>
>> Digging around a bit, for the transaction in question, the QFX file
>> contains the FITID of 202007210003:
>>
>> <STMTTRN>
>> <TRNTYPE>CREDIT
>> <DTPOSTED>20200721120000
>> <TRNAMT>54.00
>> <FITID>202007210003
>> <NAME>ACH Electronic Credit
>> <MEMO>Expenses
>> </STMTTRN>
>>
>> My GNUCash file contains, for the same transaction has the online id being
>> 202007210002
>>         <split:slots>
>>           <slot>
>>             <slot:key>online_id</slot:key>
>>             <slot:value type="string">202007210002</slot:value>
>>           </slot>
>>
>> The online_ID is ...002 instead of ...003.  Changing the QFX file to match
>> the online_id value seemed to work.  Now my question is why would this be
>> different for *lots* of transactions.  Everything worked normally in v3,
>> but this would not have changed as part of the release.  I'll check a few
>> more problem transactions and see if I can detect a pattern.  Perhaps
>> Citibank is paying games....
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 4:57 PM jean laroche <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > To get a match you have to have a transaction in the register that's
>> > sufficiently similar to the one you're importing, and that has not been
>> > imported/matched before.
>> > In your case, it could be one of these reasons (I can't see the image):
>> > - There's no matching transaction in your register (no existing
>> > transaction has amount close, and a date close to the imported one)
>> > - There's a matching transaction but it's already been matched to an
>> > imported transaction at some point so it's not available to be matched
>> > to the new imported one.
>> > - There's a matching transaction that's available, but the match score
>> > is below the threshold that allows the transaction to be shown as a
>> > potential match. Too large a date mismatch can cause that.
>> >
>> > Can you check whether you're in one of these 3 cases? If you're in case
>> > 3, you can lower the minimum matching threshold in the preferences and
>> > see if that helps.
>> > J.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 7/26/2020 2:44 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> > > If there's no matching transaction already in the account then there's
>> > nothing to clear. In that case only adding or not makes sense.
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
>> > > John Ralls
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> On Jul 26, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Fross, Michael <michael at fross.org>
>> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Hello all,
>> > >>
>> > >> I sent this earlier this month and didn't see any reply so I thought
>> I
>> > >> would try again.   Has anyone else seen these issues?  I use Citibank
>> > and
>> > >> perhaps it's a Citibank issue, but I did not have this problem on v2
>> or
>> > v3.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks all.  I appreciate the help.
>> > >>
>> > >> Michael
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 9:48 AM Fross, Michael <michael at fross.org>
>> > wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>> Hello all,
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I typically download QFX files from my banks every day or two,
>> import
>> > them
>> > >>> to clear them in Gnucash.  Worked great.  However, ever since
>> > upgrading to
>> > >>> v4, the importer seems to have trouble matching.  Most of the
>> imported
>> > >>> transactions are listed in the importer as (A)dd, but when I select
>> > >>> (C)lear for them it says match missing.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> This has occurred for several accounts.  Here is a simple credit
>> card
>> > >>> example, although for my checking account, there are dozens like
>> > this.  The
>> > >>> top portion shows the register with the Sprint bill cleared.  The
>> date,
>> > >>> amount, and name (mostly) match.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> [image: image.png]
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Not sure if there is just something wrong with my setup or not.
>> > Perhaps a
>> > >>> bug?  Are others experiencing this?  Any ideas to get the matcher
>> > matching
>> > >>> again?  Something need to get cleared out?
>> > >>>
>> > >>> For those of us in the US, happy Independence Day.  Thank you all
>> for
>> > your
>> > >>> assistance.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Michael
>> > >>>
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