[GNC] Merger of Accounts

[Ram Vilas Gupta]

*Thanks for the explanation.In fact it has solved my biggest problem; where
the same account name was created under various heads like Bank, Asset,
Exp. etc.*
*Many Many thanks for your prompt reply*

On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 at 09:30, David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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