[GNC] Training the classifier of imported transactions in GnuCash

[Cliff Kushler]

Hello - 

I am a long-time user and fan of GnuCash, and start by offering my gratitude to everyone who has contributed to it.  For what it’s worth, I am also a co-inventor of T9 and Swype, so perhaps I have contributed something to make your life easier too.  

My question is whether there is a tool, technique or strategy to improve the accuracy with which GnuCash assigns imported transactions to destination accounts.  I import large quantities of credit card transactions, and while many of them are assigned to the correct accounts, a very large number of repeat transactions (i.e. from the same vendor) are either repeatedly assigned to the same wrong category or simply left as “Imbalance-USD”.  I have not been able to identify a way to correct them while they are still displayed in the initial import window, although I suspect that would be the time to correct them.  I go through and manually correct them in the register after importing them, but this does not seem to help future classification accuracy.  

Any help would be much appreciated!  I probably should have asked this years ago…

Joy & Blessings,

Cliff Kushler