To the developers and maintainers of GnuCash: I have been using GnuCash forever it seems like, the opening balance on my checking account is dated 2011-12-31.
I never bothered to look into the import function because I just use GnuCash for keeping track of personal expenses and it didn't seem worth the effort. But a few months ago, I noticed that one of my banks, the most active one, offered downloads of .qfx files, so I downloaded one. When I used it, I didn't really understand how it worked, I never read the manual before trying things out, but it imported a ton of transactions that I would have had to manually enter. It was after a trip using ApplePay for everything. Every purchase on that trip generated two transactions, one for the purchase and one for an foreign currency fee. It save me from entering all of them manually, 62 actually. That was great. But I didn't do anything about categorizing them correctly before it entered them. Afterwards, I read a little about how it worked. I am using it for the second time today. This time I went through all the questioned transactions and assigned them before running it. It is absolutely amazing. When I used to reconcile, I would go through the bank statement adding all the transactions I had never entered, checking them off. It wasn't hard but it took some time. This time, I just click on Reconcile, and tell it the ending balance. When the window opens it has all the transactions checked off and difference is $0.00. All I have to do is click Finish. The work done by the team creating and managing this software is really great and much appreciated. Best wishes, Will _______________________________________________ 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.
