[GNC] Request for Automatic Reconciliation Function

[Liz Dodd]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 15:42:41 +0800
Bite Gao <redfrog2000 at outlook.com> wrote:

>    GnuCash Developers and Maintainers:
>       Hello! While your software has done many tedious jobs previously
>    done by
>    accountants manually, it cannot automatically reconcile its
> accounting data
>    to the bank statement in its digital form. In my opinion, the
>    automation of
>    reconciliation is not only efficient but also accurate since it
> reduces human-caused errors.
>       I would appreciate you a lot if you could add an
> auto-reconciliation function to your software.
>       Yours,
>      Bite Gao
>    Jan 4th, 2023



Bite, this is an interesting idea, but to me reconciliation requires
human input. 
While I manually reconcile, I have to attend to pending transactions,
for example a payment made on a card which never is taken from the bank
account. At what time do I take that from the active list? Where will I
put the the never finished transactions?

A number which is different in my list to the banks? How will I check
for the correct number? When do I contact the bank?

They are human decisions, different in each jurisdiction. 
They are the reason I reconcile - not to have my numbers the same as
the banks, but to see the discrepancies and decide on an action.

Could you please describe more what you want from automated
reconciliation? Your statement about "human-caused errors" implies that
reconciliation introduces errors rather than highlights them.


Liz