[GNC] reconciling specific credit cards in an account

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

The only way GnuCash can possibly know which of multiple cards a transaction is
from is if that information is somehow contained in the data fields of the
record that is being imported, usually something in the description field.
GnuCash tokenizes the information in a number of fields including the
description so it will attempt to match but unless there is a token or
combination of tokens which is unique for each credit card it is not likely to
be successful. You could try downloading and importing the files as OFX files.
This has a service provider field which may contain useful information if the
credit cards were with different providers. GnuCash may or may not utilize
information from this field however. The only other thing you could do is
request the bank to include the credit card number associated with the
transaction in the description field in which case the Bayesian matching should
assign correctly once it has been initially trained to map a given credit card
number onto a specific account.

Does your credit card provider not supply downloads of the transactions
associated with each credit card separately? My bank (also the credit card
issuer) does this for each of the credit cards issued to me and I am able to
import these separately for each card. The transactions between my bank account
and credit card liability account are only for the payments to the credit card
account.

David Cousens

On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 20:02 -0500, scum buster wrote:
> I have been using Gnucash for years......currently version 3.7.  I very much
> appreciate the program.....I used quicken for years til I started using
> Gnucash.
> 
> Have never used this forum before, so I hope I don't screw this up. LOL
> 
> I am not a Gnucash expert....I know I do some things wrong but I get by....
> 
> One thing I always seem to have issues with (I am sure it is user
> error).....is with my checking account and credit card charges that come
> through that account
> 
> I download my checking account data as a quicken file and "import" that.
> 
> I have a few credit cards with one company.  The charges come through as "
> bankname online payment" when they hit my checking account.
> 
> That would be fine if I had only one credit card with that bank.
> 
> But with a few different cards, I have issues trying to get them to
> auto-reconcile correctly and end up having to manually add the items and
> manually pick the right account......and that ends up making duplicate
> charges somehow.
> 
> What is the right way to set things up so that Gnucash knows what credit
> card account is being referenced when the charges hit my checking account?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> 
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