[Kmymoney-devel] KMyMoney - Matching priority

[aga]

On Saturday 01 May 2010 17:10:12 Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on Saturday 01 May 2010 aga wrote:
> > On doing an OFX download, two entries were matched that were unrelated.
> >  The payees were different, but the amounts were the same.  One of them
> >  should have matched against the correct payee, although the amount was
> >  different.
> >
> > Is that what should happen?  I would have thought that the same payee
> > would take precedence, rather that the amount.  If the amount has to be
> > identical for matching, a completely different payee should not be
> > accepted, should it?
> 
> Yes, it should.

OK, Thomas, but if one of the payees is set to match on name  and the other to 
match on listed names, I wouldn't have expected two totally different payee 
names to match.

> I have seen it lately too many times, that the payee
>  changes its name on the transaction. 

Yes, I know of that issue but here one was NPOWER and the other SEFTON 
COUNCIL.  I'm pretty sure I got caught out last month too and thought I had 
made a mistake and incorrectly matched the items myself, but now I think I'm 
only partially guilty for not thoroughly checking the alleged match!

>  The matcher can use some improvement
>  though.  I will be working in this area after the 4.x release.
> 

That's good enough for me.

Allan