I suppose that for affected accounts, you could create a sub-account “Pending” and post the initial transaction to the instantaneous account and to the Pending sub-account of of the “slow” account. The balance on the slow account will show you what the immediate future holds for that account. When the pending amount reaches the slow account, post between the Pending and actual accounts. The balance will not change, and you will have a record of the actual process. The reconciliation process would have to ignore the Pending sub-account values. I don’t know whether it will do this.
— Peter West [email protected] `“Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock.”` > On 3 Mar 2026, at 11:14 AM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 2026-03-02 17:00, Tom Route36 wrote: >> For a timely example here: Let's say I made an online payment to my >> credit card account on Feb. 27th. The credit card company records the >> payment as posted on Feb. 27th. But my bank doesn't record the >> transaction until today, March 2nd. When recording this payment in >> GnuCash, which date would you use as the transaction date: Feb. 27th or >> March 2nd? > > I use the date of the actual transaction, Fed 27 in your example. When > the bank posts it to my account, I change the reconciliation status from > n to c. > > The banks where I have credit cards typically post transactions as of > the date they were made, even though it may take them a few days to do it. > > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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.
