[GNC] Merger of Accounts

[David Cousens]

Yes it is but there is only a limited degree of flexibility while doing
it. If you wanted to merge two accounts, assuming that they are of the
same account type then you would first have to decide which of the
accounts you wish to keep (it can be renamed at to whatever you like
later).  Then in the accounts tab select the other account, right click
and select delete from the popup menu. The dialog will give you an
option of transferring any transactions in the account to be deleted to
another acoount. Select the account that you want to merge the
transactions into  and all the transactions from both accounts will be
in the one account. Rename the account as required.

Splitting an account is much more difficult. It is not possible to
select multiple transaction in an account register so it is not
possible to select a group of transactions and then move them to
another account. AFAIK this was a design limitation in the register
display code. If you are familiar with SQL and are using a database
backend, it should be possible at least in principle if you have a way
of selecting the particular transaction entries that you wish to
change. You would need to find the tables which tie the UUID's used to
refernce accounts,transactions and splits internally in GnuCash to
account names for example  and use the UUIDS in the SQL to reassign the
accounts in the appropriate entries(referred to as splits) to the
transactions you wish to reassign to a new account.

On Sat, 2026-01-17 at 08:13 +0530, Ram Vilas Gupta wrote:
> Before using GnuCash, I was using Quicken & Homebank.
> In both these software (single entry bookkeeping software), it uses
> the
> head of accounts as Account in case of Cash, Bank, Liability, Assets
> etc.
> But for head relating to Income & Expenditure it defines as Category.
> While in Quicken you can use Account & Category in the same
> transaction by
> splitting the amounts with the relevant amounts. But in Homebank it
> doesn't
> allow splitting amounts into 2 or more heads; but allows Category to
> be
> splitted in different heads.
> *One better feature in both Quicken & Homebank is that it allows you
> to
> merge & demerge any category (income & Expenses head) as many times
> as you
> desire.*
> *But in the case of GnuCash both Accounts or Categories ( Income &
> Expenses
> head ) are termed as Accounts.*
> *My specific Query is whether is it possible to merge one account
> with
> another account by a single process?*
> *I am using my Ubuntu 20.4 as my O.S.*
> *If you ask, I can mail the screenshots of software wnries from
> Homebank (
> developed by Home'bank.fr <http://bank.fr>) fully free legally*
> *Your earliest response will be highly appreciated.*
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David Cousens