[GNC] Problem with PayPal statements?

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi,

is anybody of you interested to translate and test
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/De/Paypal_einrichten and link it by
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/AqBanking?

You can use
https://wiki-gnucash-org.translate.goog/wiki/De/Paypal_einrichten?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=nui
as starting point.

Regards
Frank


Am 20.11.21 um 22:58 schrieb 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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