[GNC] Training the classifier of imported transactions in GnuCash

[Liz]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:19:00 -0500
Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> orrecting *after* the import doesn’t teach the matcher anything.
> 
> You have to re-assign the incorrect matches as part of the import
> process.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> > On Jun 14, 2020 w25d166, at 2:02 PM, Cliff Kushler
> > <ckushler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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  

To add to this, in later versions of Gnucash there are some ways of
editing the /learned/ items.
Could you please advise your OS, Gnucash version, and /which/ importer
you use.
This will allow more tailored advice.

Liz