[GNC] How to create a Transaction Report subtotaled by Payer?

[Maf. King]

Hi Tom,

try setting
report options -> sorting -> Primary Key:" Other Account Name"
(and tick primary subtotal)

also primary key : "description" might work, depending on how you've entered 
the txns

HTH,
Maf.

On Saturday, 24 January 2026 03:57:05 GMT Tom Route36 wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I get monthly interest payments from around a dozen different payers. 
> In GnuCash each such monthly payment gets recorded against an "Interest
> Income" account.  I want to create a report that lists all of these
> interest payments to me transaction by transaction.  If I do a
> Transaction Report for my "Interest Income" account I get a
> chronological list of these interest payments (Date, Num, Description,
> Memo/Notes, Transfer from/to, Debit, Credit).  And at the bottom of the
> report I get the total amount of all those payments combined.  That's great.
> 
> But what I really want is to get that same transaction-by-transaction
> data in a report that's subtotaled by Payer.  Something like this:
> ==========
> Bank AA:
>    Date, Description, Credit
>    Date, Description, Credit
>    Date, Description, Credit
>       Total Bank AA:  Sub-total Credits
> 
> Bank BB:
>    Date, Description, Credit
>    Date, Description, Credit
>    Date, Description, Credit
>       Total Bank BB:  Sub-total Credits
> 
> Bank CC:
>    Date, Description, Credit
>    Date, Description, Credit
>    Date, Description, Credit
>       Total Bank CC:  Sub-total Credits
> 
> Total for all payers:  Total Credits
> ==========
> 
> With Quicken this was straightforward.  Do a Transaction report for
> Interest Income subtotaled by Account.  But in GnuCash I can't seem to
> figure out how to get a similar subtotaled report.  Is there a way to do
> this?  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Tom
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