[GNC] How to Manually Match transactions

[Griff]

Thanks for the great suggestions everyone.

I tried the idea of changing from A to C during import and then looking for
a match but no matches were present to select from in the matcher dialog. I
even manually changed the date of the transaction in account A to match the
date of account B before importing, then did the import and the matcher
still did not find anything to offer up.

Too bad GnuCash does not allow selecting the match from the full list of
transactions or matching at other times besides import. Hopefully this was
a special case match issue and the norm will be to find a match for the
transfers like your example of PayPal and the multi-day float.

Otherwise, I can manually fix the issue or use Frank's short-term float
account "money in transfer" to match the transactions.

I have the default import setting of bayesian and 1, 3, 6 for thresholds, I
tried changing the match display threshold to 0 but no impact.

As a side note, I tested the QIF file for the same transactions instead to
see if that worked better and had the strange issue of GnuCash hanging.
Tried it several times with the same issue.

David places like PayPal/Venmo still enjoy the float on their end and offer
a rapid no-float option for a fee, win-win for them.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 5:54 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In the olden days some people would even try to take advantage of having a
> lot of funds in "float" between various bank accounts.  🤭😷
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 6:12 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
> > Griff,
> >
> > Sorry, I misunderstood the original post. I thought it was a single
> > import, not two separate ones.
> >
> > David's suggestions should be the way to go in your case.
> >
> > As for retaining the second date, (presumably from the Credit Card
> > account) see my reply to Frank.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> > On 11/19/20 3:18 PM, Griff wrote:
> > > Thanks Adrien and Stephen.
> > >
> > > Both your solutions are good work arounds, sounds like the short answer
> > is
> > > it can't be done the nice way preserving data. The result will be to
> > > manually delete one of the import transactions and the new duplicate
> > > created won't have the date that matches one of the 2 banks for
> > correctness
> > > purposes.
> > >
> > > To your suggestion of importing it all at once, that is not possible as
> > one
> > > QFX file is from the credit card company download and the other QFX is
> > from
> > > the different bank company's download. They will be two files.
> > >
> > > This is unfortunate as the matcher is only run on QIF import and not
> > > OFX/QFX import.
> > > Should I be getting the data from the banks in QIF instead, does that
> > work
> > > better then OFX/QFX for GnuCash import?
> >
> >
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