[GNC] QFX file for Bank of American business account not invoking Import Matcher

[David Carlson]

Peter,

What do you mean by "does not work"?

Looking at it with a text editor, it appears to follow the OFX format but
it only contains one transaction which may or may not import correctly to
your data file.

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 8:47 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 5/3/2022 11:25 PM, Peter Wu wrote:
>
> >    2.  As the email subject says.  Attached qfx file does not work.  I
> have personal Bank of American checking and credit card.  They all work.  I
> downloaded the file by using the “Web Connect for Quicken 2018 and above”.
>
> You are perhaps confusing file type with data withing that file. You say
> that you downloaded the file asking it be delivered for "Quicken 2018
> and above" What is your reasoning to expect THAT (data intended for some
> sort of bookkeeping that is NOT double entry bookkeeping) to be correct
> data for gnucash (data intended for standard double entry bookkeeping)
>
> >
> > I have a suspicion why it is not working.  Maybe it is because a
> combined qfx file.  BofA organized their business account in a group
> fashion.  They made a parent account and each credit card holder as a child
> account.  Their personal account doesn’t follow this parent-child account
> structure.
> >
> Well a credit card "account" of that sort is standard for business
> credit cards (a master card number, perhaps not used to charge anything,
> and some number of individual child cards which are. That way whoever is
> doing the record keeping can see what is being charged on each card but
> pays to the master number. That is NOT just for business. Thus in my own
> case, I have a card (and it's the master number) and my wife has a card
> with a different number but actually the same account. When I get a
> statement, the charges for both card numbers are listed separately but
> the total, and payments. etc. just on the master account number.
>
> Since I have not yet switched that to online, I have no idea what the
> file would look like if I asked MasterCard to provide a file instead of
> paper statement.
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
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David Carlson