[GNC] Splitting an imported transaction?

[Simon Roberts]

Once every three months, this *particular* pair of transactions will occur.
There are plenty of others in that happen over those three months.

On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 9:43 AM William Prescott <will at theprescotts.com>
wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why you are bothering
> to do an import if there are only two transactions once every three months.
> Wouldn't it be easier to just enter them by hand the way you want
>
> On Feb 4, 2023, at 09:23, Simon Roberts <simon at dancingcloudservices.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I use a third party organization to run payroll, and they make two
> withdrawals from my bank. One is the amount actually paid to employees (two
> of us :) and the other is the sum of taxes collected from those employees,
> plus the employer's tax contributions.
>
> Unsurprisingly, when this imports, from the bank records, it shows as two
> transactions, and the tax stuff is all lumped into a single transaction.
>
> As yet, I've only handled this once and did it wrong anyway (I fixed it up
> by hand OK though). However, in three months it'll happen again so I figure
> if I ask now I could be ready to try to do it right next time.
>
> What I'd like--but suspect might be impossible, is to persuade the import
> operation to create a split to the two accounts (payroll taxes: employer
> and payroll taxes-employee). I'm not so concerned about how the money is
> allocated across the split (there's really no way for the system to know
> what to do about that, after all), but if there's a placeholder, that would
> be a nice start.
>
> Or perhaps there's some other approach that I've not thought of?
>
> What do folks recommend?
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
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