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I enter transactions manually. It's not for everybody, but I want to see every transaction. I do this by going to the website for the bank account or credit c
by gavinhoward 3y ago
I enter transactions manually.
It's not for everybody, but I want to see every transaction.
I do this by going to the website for the bank account or credit card and looking at the Activity section (or whatever it's called).
I know that I'm weird. This is not for everybody.
- cmarschner 3y agoI did this when I was still by myself, but a) having family and b) having more and more micro transactions (like coffee, transit, lime scooters…) and c) more and more accounts (amazon, paypal) means I had to declare time bancruptcy meanwhile
- gavinhoward 3y agoI completely understand since I have a wife. But we do not do a lot of micro transactions, so it still works. Once it doesn't, I'm hoping that the cards and bank accounts we use the most will export the stuff into a format that GnuCash can use.
- aidenn0 3y agoLPT: If you do switch to importing use CSV, not QIF. A lot of (i.e. all but one of my) credit card companies have two "description" fields, a short one and a long one. The OFX usually only has the short one, leaving you with often cryptic entries; things from Stripe and PayPal often get truncated before the name of the vendor upstream of them, making them impossible to decipher.
- gavinhoward 3y agoOh, goodness, thank you for that.
- mbork_pl 3y agoI do the same (ledger, not GnuCash). A few minutes each day. I used to outsource (part of) the work to my daughter when she was ~8yo (and paid her for that) to teach her that work is where you get money from.