When you say "bank card", are you talking about something like a debit card, or a credit card?
Also, was this at one shop where you spent 7.24? If it is a debit card (money comes directly from the bank account, in contrast to a credit card, where charges accumulate, and you pay them off monthly), I'd go to the bank account and enter the transaction: date, name of shop, skip the category, enter the total as a credit, then click "split" and enter milk in the first description, and then Groceries for the account and 1.99 for the debit amount; on the next row (which appears when I move the cursor off of that row), I enter whatever description you want for the book, and the account for the book expense and the 5.25 as the debit amount. When I press enter, I have a "split" entry in the bank account. As someone else said, I only see things vanish if I enter them using a different account from where I spent the money. On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 4:20 PM p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > Hi > > Having today transferred all my data from Quicken to GNUCash I am just > trying to understand how it works. Entering single data items is easy, > but the difficulty I have hit is with payments that require multiple > debits (ie. a split payment) The User Guides that I found today uses an > income example that I did not find at all helpful despite several > readings. > > So let us have an example: > > Payment by bank card (credit entry to Bank Account) of £7.24 comprising > a book (debit £5.25 to Entertainment) and some milk (debit £1.99 to > Groceries). > > The process in Quicken would be credit bank £7.24, then for the > 'Category' choose Split and fill in the details tabbing down to the next > line and choosing catergory and amount until the balance unallocated > drops to zero. Finally save transaction by pressing Return. > > The process in GNUCash seems to start the same. Credit bank £7.24, then > choose Split. The yellow analysis lines come up, but for me the debit > (Deposit) column comes up £16.74, which is the last Groceries posting. > This is because I put the store name in as the descriptor for the > transaction but the last one was not split. I put in the correct account > Entertainment and then delete the £16.74 and enter £5.25. Next I tab > down to the next line. I enter some description like Milk, then select > the Account Groceries, tab to the next column and enter £1.99. At this > point the total Credit of £7.24 is still in place. > > At this point things look good. So what does one do next? Press Return > seems like a safe bet. However it is far from it. All that happens is > that the whole transaction disappears. The alternative, using another > Tab is almost as bad. The £1.99 debit in Groceries is now replaced by a > £5.25 credit and the £7.24 credit from the bank has disappeared. Ok, it > makes the books appear to balance since double entry is maintained but > the whole process seem astonishingly random. > > If any kind reader can advise on the correct way yo handle this simple > task I would be most grateful as I do simple domestic accounting but > have lots of split debit analysis. > > Regards > > Pete > > > Dr Peter Cuthbert > Creuddyn > Coedlan Y Plas > > Llangawsai > Aberystwyth > Ceredigion > SY23 1HJ > 01970 623 447 > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
