[GNC] Beginner use case: Checking, Savings, Credit Card = how do I correlate a transaction in Checking Withdrawal to Savings Deposit or Credit Card payment?

[R Losey]

If you have a lot of these, it may be better to start over.

Your checking-to-savings transfer should be ONE transaction with the money
coming out of the checking and going into the savings (I am avoiding using
the terms "credit" and "debit" because some people find them confusing).
Anyway, you will need to pick one of the two transactions and changed
"imbalance" account to the other account (if you use the checking one,
change "imbalanced" to your savings account) and then delete the other one
(again, if you edited the checking account transaction, then delete the one
in the savings with the "imbalanced" entry). This is how you fix it, but,
as I noted, if you have hundreds of these, you may want to redo the import
process so that this doesn't happen again.

I cannot help with the import, as I just started up GnuCash from where I
was and didn't bother with entering historical data.

But from reading what you did, I think doing the checking transaction and
then the savings probably confused the importer. It would be better, if
possible, to either do all of them, or else split them up by time -- that
is, do all transactions for 6 months or a year. You may want to play around
with the importer and start off with only doing a month or so.

Best wishes....



On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 10:56 AM Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out the very basics of managing a checking account,
> savings account and credit card in GnuCash. I downloaded a csv of all
> checking transactions for a year and imported them. They look good and
> match up with my check register. Then I downloaded my savings for a year
> into a savings account in GnuCash. Finally, I downloaded a csv of credit
> card transactions for a year and imported into a liabilities/credit card
> account.
>
> So, in my checking account, I see a transfer to savings. This is marked
> imbalanced.
>
> In my savings account, I see a deposit maybe the same day and the same
> amount. This is marked imbalanced.
>
> If I open my checking account register and changed the destination
> account from imbalanced to savings, then I see that transaction pop up
> in my savings register. I now have two transactions of the same amount
> and possibly the same day in my savings register. Would I delete the
> duplicate entry I got when I downloaded the csv? Or what do I do to show
> that my checking transfer out transaction is the same as my savings
> increase transaction?
>
> And the same with my credit account. I see a payment out of checking to
> SuperBigBank Mastercard. In the credit card, I see a payment. Both are
> imbalanced. If I change the checking transaction to show it goes to my
> credit card, I now see two transactions in my credit card register.
> Would I simply delete the duplicate entry? Or how do I show that they
> are the same transaction?
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