[GNC] Problem with PayPal statements?

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Jean,

I am not sure whether your Paypal statement is exactly the same as mine but my
statement has three columns with an amount in them labelled  "Gross", 'Fee",
"Net". I assign either the Deposit or Withdrawal header to the "Gross" column
when I import  the CSV. I can't remember which I use but I usually cut one or
two transactions into a separate file and import into a test file them to sort
it out ( I am not interested in accounting for the fees separately as I regard
them as part of the purchse). There is usually no need to assign both the
Deposit header and the Withdrawal header to separate columns in the importas the
sense is determined by the sign in the "Gross" or "Net" column so it is normal
to assign only one of the two headers to a single column. The only time you need
to assign both headers is when the deposits and Withdrawals are listed in
separate columns.

David

On Sat, 2021-11-20 at 16:14 +0100, Jean D. Boyle via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hello Fellow users of GNUCash and Frank,
> 
> I have an update on this 'problem with PayPal statements'. It seems that 
> I have had two columns set as /Deposit/, so that GNUCash added two 
> values per row*, which resulted in a doubled amount for each transaction.
> 
> Sorry for any inconvenience. By failing, I am learning to walk...
> 
> 
> *Is this a correct behaviour, that GNUCash adds two deposit columns?
> 
> 86ul
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Jean D. Boyle [mailto:86ul at vivaldi.net]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 9:20 AM
> *To:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> *Subject:* [GNC] Problem with PayPal statements?
> 
> > Hello Fellow users of GNUCash and Frank,
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > 
> >   * I used to use GNUCash that was in the repo of Mint, after using
> >     the PPA of Sickylife. With that I got as far as GNUCash 4.2. To be
> >     more up to date I use flatpack now.
> >   * The statements of PayPal are downloaded by myself, as I do not use
> >     AQbanking.
> >   * Oh, neither a restart of GNUCash did do the trick, nor a full
> >     reboot of my computer.
> > 
> > Feel free to ask for more.
> > 
> > 86ul
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Frank H. Ellenberger [mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* Sunday, November 7, 2021, 9:01 PM
> > *To:* Jean D. Boyle; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > *Subject:* [GNC] Problem with PayPal statements?
> > 
> > > Hi Jean,
> > > 
> > > to understnad where to search I have aa few questions:
> > > 
> > > Am 07.11.21 um 16:36 schrieb Jean D. Boyle via gnucash-user:
> > > > Hello fellow users of GNUCash,
> > > > 
> > > > Currently I am running GNUCash 4.8 with Flatpak on M20.2, and I have
> > > > some troubles with GNUCash that i had not before:
> > > and before you have been using an older Flatpak or a pristine GnuCash?
> > > 
> > > > When importing my statements from PayPal (*.csv), GNUCash starts to
> > > > behave a bit strange.
> > > Are you downloding the files manually and use then the CSV-Import or
> > > have you setup Aqbanking to manage it for you?
> > > 
> > > > Although everything is correct in the /import
> > > > preview/ -including the amount of deposit/withdrawal-, all amounts are
> > > > doubled in the /Match Transaction; the rest is correct/.
> > > > When opening this *.csv-file from PayPal, everything is correct,
> > > > including all of the amounts; none are doubled. Therefore I think
> > > > GNUCash seems to double the amounts.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this just on my M20.2, or do I something weird, or is it a bug? If
> > > > the latter, I will fill in a proper bug report.
> > > Regards
> > > Frank
> 
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