Re: [GNC] How to handle recurring transactions with currency conversion

2024-07-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/3/2024 5:14 PM, R Losey wrote: Just to keep them separate, I would use usd_amount and chf_amount for the variables. I kind of ignore the currency exchange rate... I enter everything as USD because I live in America, and my bank accounts and credit cards are in USD. So, if I have a euro tra

Re: [GNC] How to handle recurring transactions with currency conversion

2024-07-03 Thread William Prescott
I didn't know about the ability to use variables in scheduled transactions. That is a great tip that I may take advantage of, although at the moment it doesn't seem like it saves a whole lot of effort over just leaving variable amounts blank and filling them in when the amount becomes known. As

Re: [GNC] How to handle recurring transactions with currency conversion

2024-07-03 Thread R Losey
Just to keep them separate, I would use usd_amount and chf_amount for the variables. I kind of ignore the currency exchange rate... I enter everything as USD because I live in America, and my bank accounts and credit cards are in USD. So, if I have a euro transaction, I may enter it with a guess,

Re: [GNC] How to handle recurring transactions with currency conversion

2024-07-03 Thread Ronald Solomon
Thanks for the information! Ron Solomon On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 2:27 PM Tommy Trussell wrote: > You might try using one or more variables in a scheduled transaction and it > will prompt you for the variable amount(s) when it creates the transaction. > > SO for example, if you put the letters "amo

Re: [GNC] How to handle recurring transactions with currency conversion

2024-07-03 Thread Tommy Trussell
You might try using one or more variables in a scheduled transaction and it will prompt you for the variable amount(s) when it creates the transaction. SO for example, if you put the letters "amount" (without quotation marks) in the credit AND debit portions of the scheduled transaction template,

Re: [GNC] How to handle recurring transactions with currency conversion

2024-07-03 Thread William Prescott
You can leave the amount blank on the scheduled transactions. Just put in the lines for the accounts. It will create the transactions on schedule and you just have to fill in the amount when you have it. I'm not sure if that is helpful. Best wishes, Will On 3 Jul 2024, at 6:08, rsbrux via gnuc

[GNC] How to handle recurring transactions with currency conversion

2024-07-03 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
We receive monthly payments from U.S. Social Security. These werre previously paid out in U.S. dollars (USD) but are now paid out in Swiss Francs (CHF). I previously handled these with a scheduled transaction, since the amounts remained the same over at least a year, but this doesn't work any