[GNC] reconciling an account and paying the balance

Paul Kinzelman paul at kinzelman.com
Fri Aug 26 17:07:31 EDT 2022


On some of my charge card accounts, when I reconcile the account
with the statement, a pop-up happens that automatically allows
me to record the payment. For those accounts, the pop-up happens
every time I reconcile those accounts.

On other charge card accounts, when I reconcile them, nothing
happens and I have to manually enter the payment transaction.
And for these accounts, every time I reconcile them, I have to
manually enter the transaction.

The same kind of things happens also on reconciling
savings/checking for entering the interest every month,
on some accounts I always get a pop-up to enter interest
and on some accounts I never get the popup.

What determines whether a payment or interest window
pops up during reconciliation or not?

I looked under help | "Reconciling an Account to a Statement" where it says:
"You can change this behaviour in the GnuCash Preferences from the 
menuEdit → Preferences in the Register tab by activating the checkbox 
Automatic credit card payment."
but that's checked. Is that a per-account thing? Or a global setting
for all accounts? The help implied that it's per-account but it looks
like it's global because it was set when I selected an account that's
not doing auto-popup, when to Edit | Preferences | Register
and the "Automatic credit card payment" seems to be always set.

Under Account tab | account | right-click | edit account there is a box
"Auto interest transfer" that when I hover it sounds like what
I want, but it's never checked even on accounts that do have
the popup for the payment.

I'm confused.

TIA!


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