[GNC] Best way to track expenses for trips

[Kalpesh Patel]

If I were to use the Action field -- which is quite attractive -- is transaction level report to be had without too much effort? Exporting to Excel to do the math is fine ...

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2026 6:36 PM
To: adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Best way to track expenses for trips

You can use the action field. It’s a combo, meaning a combination of a text entry and a list box. The list part has a collection of pre-programmed entries that you (or the program) can choose from, but you can also enter anything you like in it.

Regards,
John Ralls



> On Jul 27, 2026, at 14:29, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> You can also use the Notes field (visible in Double Line mode) and the split Memos. Those are useful if you don't want to clutter up your Description list for this purpose.
> 
> I don't think you can use the Action field, though that would be nice.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 7/27/26 1:14 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>> Assign each trip a unique code/word/ID and ensure that went into the description field for each expense.  That way if a couple of trips overlapped on dates you could separate them.
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