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Import Transfers Properly

#54

In Quicken, transfers between accounts are created by assigning a category with the account name in square brackets, i.e. "[Savings]." After importing into moneyGuru, however, transfer transactions are improperly turned into Income or Expense Accounts, instead of being properly noted as transfers between Asset or Liability accounts.

Reported by Randy Becker · August 16th, 2009 @ 10:02 PM

State: fixed
Milestone: v1.6.9
Assigned to: Virgil Dupras Virgil Dupras

Activity

  1. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • Tag changed from import, quicken, suggestion to bug, import, quicken

    The QIF file is supposed to have a section at the beginning of the file describing the type of each account to come. This is what moneyGuru uses to know what type of account "[Savings]" is.

    If moneyGuru can't properly do that, it would be a bug. Maybe it has something to do with the brackety name. If it was possible to have a sample QIF file (I don't have Quicken, the only time I had it was with Tiger, when it was bundled with OS X), it would be great.

    August 17th, 2009 @ 08:53 AM

  2. Randy Becker
    Randy Becker

    Here's a sample transfer of $5 from Savings to Checking. After importing it into a new moneyGuru file, there are two transactions instead of one.

    August 17th, 2009 @ 05:35 PM

  3. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • Milestone set to v1.6.9

    December 19th, 2009 @ 03:55 PM

  4. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • Assigned user set to Virgil Dupras

    December 21st, 2009 @ 10:21 AM

  5. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • State changed from new to accepted

    Oh, yes, I see. Even though the "Account" section in the QIF list those accounts without brackets, the transfer entries put brackets around the account name in the L section.

    December 21st, 2009 @ 10:31 AM

  6. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • State changed from accepted to fixed

    (from [359]) [#54 state:fixed] Fixed imports for QIF transfers. moneyGuru previously duplicated transactions as well as accounts.

    December 21st, 2009 @ 12:16 PM

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