[GNC] How do you do this - differentiate scheduled transaction versus no scheduled one

[Peter West]

FWIW, when I receive a bill to be paid at some future date, I put the amount in as a liability against the appropriate expense account. I then schedule the payment for that future date, both at my bank and in the scheduled payments editor. In that case, the entry is from my cash account against the the liability account. IANAA.

Peter
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> On 15 Oct 2021, at 12:19 am, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:
> 
> A workflow questions for GNC users:
> 
> 
> 
> 1 - My habits when it comes to payments for example credit card, mortgage,
> other bills, etc. is to scheduled it out in advance from the appropriate
> institutions that hold my bank accounts, such as checking, savings, etc. at
> a future date but within due date. In the sub-account register for the bank
> account, I like to some-how want to be able to differentiate that I have
> already scheduled up a transaction versus other transaction that is needed
> to be scheduled out. What I was hoping would be that is in the reconcile
> column there would be able to put user defined character, rather than just
> limited to 'y', 'c' and 'n' so that I can actually sort out and see what is
> actually scheduled out and what is not in that account. It seems that this
> is not possible so what would be the best way to differentiate between two
> in the register? I do use scheduling to auto enter certain transactions but
> I still verify with the bank that transaction is actually scheduled and want
> to mark that it has been confirmed as such.
> 
> 
> 
> 2 - How should I be handling a transactions where for example my credit card
> credits my payment today but bank doesn't show the corresponding withdrawal
> transaction until 3 days later when the funds are actually withdrawn from
> the account. Currently one transaction will accept only one date for both
> side of the transactions but during import and reconcile time if I update +
> reconcile then the timestamp changes to whoever's transactions are
> reconciled last from the two accounts. This is somewhat super annoying
> because it re-arranges things in register so when you try to find an
> erroneous transaction of small amount, you cannot compare against the
> running ledger from the institution's on-line portal against entries in the
> register or the running total in the register entailing lots of manual
> back-and-forth in the register and possibly updating reconciled
> transactions.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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