On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:57:15 -0600 William Prescott <w...@theprescotts.com> wrote:
> To the developers and maintainers of GnuCash: Ditto for the Kudos! My start date was August ยด99. Always found everyone helpful, & thank the developers. (Believe me, I am no accountant, but manage.) Regards, Doug in Australia. > > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
