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Ah... I see.... I thought you meant download the Checking first... Now
I see you mean the manual verification portion of it. I will try it
out.

Mike Alexander
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
See my online aerial photo album at
http://flying.4alexanders.com

Mike 'Flyin'8' wrote:
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By "process the checking account first" I meant to review the downloaded
transactions in that account first, within Money. You can do that.

I don't think I can process the checking account first... The credit
card and checking account are from the same bank.... In fact, when I
added my account number for my accounts, it recognized my savings,
checking and credit card at the same time. All the updates are
accomplished with one connection though all three appear as seperate
accounts in MS Money account list. Is there a setting to force it to
process the credit card first?


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Mike Alexander
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
See my online aerial photo album at
http://flying.4alexanders.com

Mike 'Flyin'8' wrote:
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If you process the checking account first, the credit account may link to it
automatically. That is more likely to be true after you've linked it once.
When you do that, Money remembers the bank description of the downloaded
transaction, and links that to your description of the checking transaction.
Subsequent transactions are linked using that association.

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I think it makes sense... I will see what happens next time something
come through. I went through and manually corrected a ton of entries
and it is close to balanced, not perfect, but really close.

Should be interesting the next time a transaction comes through.

Thanks!

Mike Alexander
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
See my online aerial photo album at
http://flying.4alexanders.com

Mike 'Flyin'8' wrote:
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Review the downloaded transactions in checking first. You can change the
checking account entry to say 'transfer:', but that's not the source of your
problem. It can say 'credit payment: card x' and be just as accurate, as
long as 'card x' is the credit card account in question. Accept all the
downloaded transactions after they meet your satisfaction.

After reviewing downloaded transactions in checking, review the ones in the
credit card account. The transfer/cc payment from checking should be there,
but not highlighted. The transaction downloaded for the credit card account
should also be there, but should be highlighted. Click the Change button,
then the option that says something to the effect of "I want to match an
existing transaction".

In the resulting list, check the box of the transfer/cc payment from
checking. OK your way out of the process, and the two will then be linked.

The underlying problem is that, in Money, payments from checking to credit
card accounts are linked. They apparently are also linked in your own mind
(that's good). But they are NOT linked as downloaded from your bank. Each
account downloads its own transactions, and there is no relationship between
the two accounts, as downloaded.

Does that make sense?
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

Yes they are creating duplicate entries.... here is the order of
events...

1. Pay credit card bill online (through my bank... not MS Money)
2. Update MS Money from bank... (this pulls in the entries for the
checking and credit card account)
3. Change the Checking account entry to say Transfer : Credit Card.

Now... if I go review my credit card account, it shows 2 payments....
It has the entry which was downloaded, and now it has the second entry
from when I chenged it to say "Transfer : Credit Card"



On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:09:12 -0400, "Chris Cowles" <NoSpam[at]For.mewrote:

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Mike Alexander
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
See my online aerial photo album at
http://flying.4alexanders.com

Mike 'Flyin'8' wrote:
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I must be missing something here. Are the transactions creating duplicate
entries in either the checking or credit accounts? If so, at what point are
those created?
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

That is what I thought as well..... But that is not what's
happening... The reason I want to change it from credit card payment
to transfer is because it shows up as 2 different items in the
reports. I would like the report to show "Transfer : Credit card" and
"Credit card payment" as one item in my report.



On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:28:52 -0400, "Chris Cowles" <NoSpam[at]For.mewrote:

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Mike Alexander
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
See my online aerial photo album at
http://flying.4alexanders.com

Mike 'Flyin'8' wrote:
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Credit Card Payment is just a Transfer in disguise. I think the special
category was created so as not to confuse newbies who hadn't quite grasped
the 'transfer' concept. There's no reason to change it to Transfer, unless
you just like the sound of that word better.

If a duplicate transaction is created as a result of online update, can not
click the change button on the online transaction, then link it to the
transfer transaction? That should merge them.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

I have my Checking account and a credit card account set up for online
updates. When I pay my credit card bill from my checking account, it
is logged as a credit card payment. Really, it is a transfer to
credit card XYZ. When I change the catagory to Transfer: Credit Card
XYZ it adds another entry in the Credit Card register.

For example...

If I pay my credit card bill and and enter this in my register, then
go update my MS Money, it shows this as a credit card payment, then
when I cange this entry in my checking account it shows just one
entry... No when I go check on he credit card, there is now another
entry... the first one which was updated via the online update, and
another because I changed the Credicat card payment catagory to
Transfer : credit card....

What am I doing wrong??? Is my understanding of the catagories
incorrect? The help file with money is pretty much useless from what
I can tell. I wish manuals still came with software...

Mike Alexander
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
See my online aerial photo album at
http://flying.4alexanders.com