[GNC] Newbie: Gnucash credit card payment transactions don't make sense

[Fred Bone]

On 24 May 2025 at 15:32, Deborah Robson said:

> I’ve reviewed the concepts and tutorial and spent a couple of days
> trying to figure out what’s going on with payments from ASSET:CHECKING
> to CREDIT CARD accounts. This is happening with both credit cards, but I
> have three examples from the same account. I have attempted to make
> payments on the cards by (1) in the checking account transfer field,
> specifying the destination credit card account; (2) using the
> “transfer” button in the top bar; (3) manually correcting the entries
> in both affected accounts (this tends to be least successful, not that the
> others were).
> 
> I have screenshots for all three examples but apparently cannot attach
> more than a couple. The ones below are example #1.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? ? ? ? ?

Your CC account must have the wrong type. The column labels (as you have 
turned off "formal accounting labels") should be "Payment" and "Charge" 
for a CC account.

The credits in the bank account are correctly being balanced by debits in 
the CC account.

If you set them to the correct account type the debit (left) column will 
be labelled "Payment".

However, it looks as though you have put some charges in backwards ...