Am Samstag, 5. Januar 2008 06:05 schrieb Thomas Bushnell BSG: > > You asked why direct connect would be used. I answered with my use case. > > If that doesn't suit you, so be it. It /helps/ me keep a better eye on my > > credit card than keying in paper receipts did. > > (...) > > Then I said, "it doesn't help with reconciliation" (per se), which still > seems to be true, and there was then confusion about what reconciliation > is. So I clarified that.
Here's the answer: Yes, it does help with reconciliation, as "downloading a file and importing it into gnucash" will mark transactions as "cleared" which were imported from the downloaded file. Hence, these are marked as "yes, those transaction have been executed by the bank on your account". However, the reconciliation is still useful because importing transactions always has the issue to detect and avoid duplicates. Depending on the file format and download protocol, this duplicate detection doesn't work as flawlessly as we'd hope - yes, there are download formats that do *not* have a unique identifier of each transaction. Hence, the user still needs to manually reconcile, but those transactions that came from an import will have the check mark already set. Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
