In my experience with the software that is not the case. True, you can
reconcile any transaction...but only within a limited window of time.
Now, if you have an uncleared transaction in your register dated
November 8th, 2022 and the .OFX file downloaded from your bank indicates
that the check cleared on November 14th, 2022 you can match it, even
though it's (nearly) two years later. But if the bank said that the
transaction didn't clear until March...it doesn't even show up as an
option under "Match Manually." Believe me, been there, done that.
The key setting appears to be "Unlikely match day threshold," under
Edit>>Preferences>>Import. I've got that maxed out at 50 days; it will
not go any higher than that. So if the transaction your bank reports is
farther away than that from the entry in your register...you don't even
see the transaction when you go to match it. It just doesn't appear.
On 8/27/2024 4:47 PM, David Carlson wrote:
I think gmail sent my half written response. You can match any
unrrconciled transaction in the transaction import tool. If you
cannot find the correct transaction you probably already matchrd it in
a previous import.
You can mark the transaction as do not import and re-run the impprt
later when you have decided how to correct that entry.
If you are using both of those tools as intended, GnuCash does not
lose the correct status of any transacion, regardless of how or when
it was entered.
Sorry about the fat finger spelling errors.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 4:32 PM David Carlson
<david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote:
Gnucash only marks transactions cleared when you use the
reconciliation tool. All uncleared transaction, no matter how
old, are available to match in the import transaction
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 1:27 PM Ken Pyzik <py...@outlook.com> wrote:
Well, you could just not use the clearing function at all –
which is what I do.
If fact, all my transactions have an "n" on them in Gnucash.
Instead, of trying to figure out what cleared, I assume
everything clears. This makes for a much easier task - since
almost 100% of transactions do clear - I only have to worry
about the one's that don't - which for me - is almost none anyway.
But everyone's situation is different. For me – clearing is
just added worked I choose not to do.
Ken
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Subject: [GNC] Checks outstanding...VERY outstanding!
I have a few vendors and charities whom I still pay with paper
checks
(they're not eligible for my bank's electronic payment
system), and some
of them are very lackadaisical about cashing those checks.
It's not
unusual for one of them to sit on a check for three months
before it
finally shows up in my bank's payment queue...by which time
it's long
past even the maximum possible setting on GnuCash for manually
matching
a check. More annoying, and this has happened several times,
is if I
don't watch the match game with an eagle eye GnuCash will then
assume
that the paper check from a month and a half ago which just
cleared is
actually the one which is supposed to go out tomorrow and will
mark *it*
cleared...and then there's no way to "unclear" it in the matching
algorithm. Oh, I can manually hit the check box and change the
clearance
from C to N, but the next time I download transactions it will
skip over
that one and not clear it, even when the proper check finally
does come in.
One of the issues is that, according to my best understanding
of U.S.
tax law, payments are officially "made" when the check is
written and
dropped in the mail. So, if I write a check in November but
it's not
cashed until March (which has happened)...it screws everything
up, and
(even if the check is still within the window to manually
match) "Update
+ Clear" brings the payment out of the proper accounting
period. So,
does anyone have a recommendation for dealing with this kind
of kerfuffle?
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