[GNC] Split Transaction in One Account results in Multiple Transactions in the Other Account

[Liz]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:27:19 -0600
Tom Route-36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I record this $136.00 transaction in GnuCash, the credit card 
> account will have a single transaction consisting of 17 splits, where 
> each split documents the description (in each Memo field) and the
> cost of each of those 17 items.  And all 17 split items get recorded
> into my Expenses:Groceries account.


Consider having 20 or so subaccounts of Expenses:Groceries, eg protein
veges fruit 

which would allow you to look at the changes over time in your
categories.

If you don't need that many categories, rolling them up into another is
easy at any stage, but splitting them later is tedious.

Liz