well… I’ve spent today trying to change my way of doings things to get around the issues I’ve had. Feedback is as follows:
I’ve tried to use the match function. To be honest, It’s only been useful as a date filter, since it doesn’t seems to tally the totals up to a recognisable sum. I’m sure that it’s because I don’t know how to use it. I couldn’t find any comprehensive documentation on the function to explain what the software is actually doing… maybe you can point me in the right direction? With a credit card statement, we start at zero and end at the total spent amount… but I just can’t get it to show me the correct figures. I can however see the correct statement balance at in the running total column, so I was able to use that to make sure my figures were ok.
So, your suggestion for using this system to reconcile the credit card statement doesn’t really work for me, especially as I have three cards to reconcile, but only using one account on QF. I would have to set up three seperate bank accounts to truly make this work.
Anyway… such messing around has given me a better familiarity with the software now, so I have found a way to achieve what I need to, albeit in a slightly more ‘round the houses’ fashion.
Other newbies might find this useful…
For a start, when you are entering your credit card purchase receipts, NEVER show them as paid as this will make an entry in the credit card bank account. If you do this, when you come to reconcile, you’ll find it difficult to check through unless you have religiously entered every single transaction as you’ve made purchases.
The best way I have found is to download a csv file from your credit card provider’s website, and then upload it onto QF. This will ensure that every transaction is on QF, so in theory you don’t have to spend time checking all transactions are present. Instead, go through each transaction and tag them up to the scanned receipts.
If QF doesn’t suggest a receipt when you tag a transaction in the bank statement, then simply open another webpage and enter the receipt through the ‘Enter New Purchase’ page. Then,flick back to the bank statement window and tag your transaction… you should find it there now.
For current accounts, I think it’s best to work in the same way, that is, work from the uploaded (or live feed) statement, and simply tag each record.
So ultimately Glenn, after all my time spent today, I can see that by changing my methods I can acheiev most things with the functionality that’s there… but I still maintain that either we be allowed to view more items on one page (I’m talking about max 250 for example), OR code the site to maintain the check box state when one flicks from page to page (much like gmail does).
With the first suggestion, we can everything that’s on one statement on one page. With the second idea, we can achieve the same thing when we use pagination. I do understand very well about server strain, but I don’t think another 150 records is going to make any noticeable difference to the site performance and actually, one might reduce the overhead actually because right now I find myself constantly flicking around making many calls to the server to see different pages. If I could see everything on one page then I’d leave that page open for an hour at a time whilst I work with all the data I need on the same page.