Thanks, sounds like I did the right thing then. Actually I void the "PAYMENT
-THANK YOU" transaction so I save their opinion of when the payment was
received.

Actually, this was a new user problem. Once I had set up transfers that
were later downloaded from the CC account, it was recognized by Money, just
as you say.

"Dick Watson" wrote:

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The "best practices" method is to "categorize" the first one to download as
a Transfer or Credit Card Payment (but no "Credit Card Payments /
Transfers"--delete that one!) to or from the second account prior to
accepting it. Then when you download the corresponding one in the second
account it should match up or you should do it by hand before accepting it.

"workinman" <workinman[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:710DCC85-011A-4BE3-A950-24E544804E13[at]microsoft.com...
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I am having the same problem with my bill pay transfers. They are downloaded
from the bank and credit card, so they are two different transactions, maybe
a day or so apart.

How did you (or anyone) solve this? I am about to start manually editing
the checking-side entries to be transfers, then setting the downloaded
payment in the credit card account to 0.

"thesquishie" wrote:

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Never mind! I found the solution!

"thesquishie" wrote:

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I just downloaded the trial version of Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe and
uploaded 5 different accounts (2 savings, 2 checking & 1 credit). The issue
I'm having is with the pie chart report on the home page. We use our credit
card for most purchases and pay it off every month to get the reward points.
Because of that I categorized all our credit card purchases to properly show
us the percentages we spend on what each month. But then in my checking
account (which I use to pay the credit card off) I categorized the credit
card payments as "Credit Card Payments/Transfers". Now the reports represent
that outgoing money twice - once as an expense say...$100 in household that I
cagetorized in the credit card account, once as an expense of $100 in credit
card payments/transfers that I categoried in the checking account. Anyone
else encounter this? I thought that since I would have a debit of $100 in my
checking but then a credit of $100 in my credit card account they would
cancel each other out but the pie chart doesn't show income like that.

I also deal alot with company reimbursables and don't know how to properly
categorize them so that they don't show up on our monthly expense reports.
Technically I'm not spending the money as I get reimbursed a week later but
it shows up in my checking account and if I categorize it it will show up as
an expense on the report but doesn't get canceled out when I deposit the
reimbursement money.

Would not categorizing these transactions take care of that? Or would they
show up on the expense pie chart as "not categorized" anyways?