[GNC] reconcile problem?

[Dean Gibson]

Well, I have multiple multiple cards with the same bank, & it's no 
trouble to detect the payments during import & deal with them in an 
appropriate manner.  I n my case, I delete them from the import.  That 
makes the reconciliation balance to the amount that was due.  Then, when 
I import payments from by checking account, I allocate the payments to 
the correct card account.

GNUcash is reasonable accounting software.  It just doesn't do thinking 
for each individual's particular situation.


On 2022-02-25 08:20, David Carlson wrote:
> That came up in another thread a couple of weeks ago.  As far as I know,
> the only solution is to be very careful in the matching step of the import.
>    You can help yourself when making the payments to be sure they have
> different dates or amounts, or even paying out of different checking
> accounts.
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 8:11 AM scum buster<scumbuster at comcast.net>  wrote:
>
>> Sidebar question --- do any of you have more than one credit card with the
>> same bank?   That is where I am running into issues when I import and
>> "clear" (I have always called this "reconciling" but I guess there is a
>> difference?)
>>
>> The bank just has a line item "bankname payment"  , same for each card
>> account.
>>
>> That is where I run into issues trying to manually "clear" and that throws
>> my account balances in GC off....
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adrien Monteleone [mailto:adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 2:15 PM
>> To:gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] reconcile problem?
>>
>> Transactions won't reconcile themselves, but you can clear them either
>> manually or via an import.
>>
>> If you opened a backup by mistake, that would result in something
>> showing 'unreconciled' if the backup was before the reconciliation.
>>
>> The only way to get the 'y' to appear in the register is through a
>> reconciliation. Which means you in fact checked it off a previous time.
>>
>> You can re-do a reconciliation by changing all of the affected
>> transactions back to 'n' or 'c', and then trying again. Be sure to
>> remove any adjusting transactions you made during the last
>> reconciliation. You probably don't need them. (but can always re-create
>> if you do)
>>
>> Then proceed with this months reconciliation.
>>
>> In the future, if you ever notice transactions appearing 'c' or 'n' when
>> you know they should be 'y' means you've edited them in a manner that
>> will change the flag. (either in that register or one connected to the
>> transaction)
>>
>> If you don't get warnings about this, go to Actions > Reset Warnings...
>> and adjust as needed.
>>
>> When you edit a transaction and the flag changes (or you discover it
>> later) simply re-reconcile and clear the affected transaction(s). (and
>> if you are editing amounts, double check you didn't make an adjusting
>> entry, because again, you might no longer need it!)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>> On 2/23/22 9:33 AM, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
>>> That's a good question and I think that could be an explanation
>>> for the resurrection of the reconciled transactions which happened
>>> quite awhile ago when I was new to GC.
>>>
>>> But that doesn't explain how a transaction could become
>>> reconciled on its own like the one that happened this month, which
>>> tipped me over the edge to post about it.
>>
>>
>>
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