[GNC] credit account negative balance increases with payment

[Stan Brown]

> On Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 11:54 AM Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm
> <mailto:the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> 
[snip]
>     You might take a look in Edit » Preferences » Accounts, under "Reverse
>     Balanced Accounts". I can't remember the details from when I set up my
>     data file a few years ago, but I do remember that on experimenting with
>     those settings the only one that _didn't_ give nonsensical results was
>     "Credit accounts".  (I mean nonsensical to me; I'm sure the developers
>     must have had some good reason for those other settings.)
> 
>     Are you saying something like: the balance on your Visa account was
>     minus $200, and you paid $65, and now the balance is minus $265 instead
>     of the expected minus $135? ...

On 2023-03-04 11:28, Custom Shots wrote:
> That's exactly what I'm saying.  I owe $500. That's a negative balance
> in my credit card account, showing in red with a minus sign. I enter a
> payment of $200 and the negative balance increases to -$700. The
> negative balance should decrease to -$300. Yet the other half of the
> transaction correctly withdraws $200 from cash.
> I did play with the settings when I decided I liked seeing what I owed
> as red negative numbers.

In that case, I don't have anything else to offer. I'll look forward to
seeing how this is resolved. I think it's unlikely to be a bug -- that
would have been caught long ago -- but I can't think of another explanation.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com