[GNC] Reconcile Operation overrides User-entered Ending Balance

[Sherlock]

Tom,

Yes to both of your questions.

You can confirm this yourself with one of the subsequent nightly builds: 
https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable/

Regards,

Sherlock


On 8/4/26 7:15 PM, Tom Route36 wrote:
> Hi Sherlock,
> 
> Thanks for that info and link.  Just for clarification, Bug 799753 is 
> listed as "/Reconciliation error when reconciling transactions posted 
> after the reconcile date/".  So it sounds like maybe the issue is 
> fixed.  One concern though is the "/posted after/" part.  In my case, 
> the transaction of concern is posted *on*, not after the date.  Does it 
> seem like the July 7th code fixes that?
> 
> Also, one other concern.  Even when I manually enter the correct ending 
> balance in the Reconcile window -- and the corrected value seems to get 
> accepted there -- my corrected entry gets changed back to the wrong 
> value once I hit the OK button.  Do you think that's also addressed by 
> the updated code?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/04/2026 06:18 PM, Sherlock wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> This sounds like the issue addressed by https://github.com/Gnucash/ 
>> gnucash/pull/2263 and merged in to the stable branch on July 7th, 2026.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sherlock
>>
>>
>> On 8/4/26 2:35 PM, Tom Route36 wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I came across what looks to me like a bug in Reconcile operations; 
>>> but before I post anything to Bugzilla I just want to run it by folks 
>>> here to see if this is a real bug, or if maybe it's just operator 
>>> error on my part.  Here's the deal. (And you can scroll ahead to the 
>>> 5th paragraph if you don't want all the background details.)
>>>
>>> I get a credit card statement; and I want to reconcile it.  The 
>>> statement ending date is 7/27, and the statement ending balance is 
>>> $800.  I open up the account in GnuCash and hit the Reconcile button. 
>>> The Reconcile window pops up showing me a Statement Date of 7/25 with 
>>> an Ending Balance of $800.  So far, all is okay.  I know the 
>>> Statement Date in the Reconcile popup is an estimated date based on 
>>> the previous month, and the Reconcile Ending Balance is the balance 
>>> of the account as of that estimated date.  It's all good.
>>>
>>> Now I need to do the Reconcile operation.  So in that popup window, I 
>>> edit the Reconcile Statement Date changing it from 7/25 to 7/27; and 
>>> I see that the Reconcile Ending Balance changed from $800 to $950. 
>>> That change in Ending Balance doesn't surprise me because I know that 
>>> I had a transaction on 7/27 for $150; and that transaction won't 
>>> appear on my credit card statement until the following month. 
>>> However, GnuCash figures that $150 is part of the current 
>>> reconciliation period. No big deal though.  I just go and edit the 
>>> Ending Balance from $950 back to $800.  With my edits, both those 
>>> fields in the Reconcile popup window now match my credit card 
>>> statement. Again, everything looks fine.
>>>
>>> So I hit the OK button in the Reconcile popup window.  And that gets 
>>> me to the window where I can do the actual reconciliation - the 
>>> listing of Funds In and Funds Out.  And here's where I have a problem.
>>>
>>> In the lower right corner of that Funds In vs. Funds Out window is a 
>>> box with the reconciliation summary.  And even though it shows my 
>>> Statement Date correctly as 7/27, it ignores the edit that I made to 
>>> the Ending Balance.  It's back at $950, instead of the $800, which is 
>>> what I entered in the Reconcile popup window.  To me, that seems like 
>>> a bug.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I just wanted to put this out here for any comments, in case 
>>> there's some logical reason that I'm not aware of for GnuCash 
>>> ignoring or overriding my input in the Reconcile popup window.  Let 
>>> me know what you think.
>>>
>>> Tom