[Kmymoney-devel] KMyMoney - Matching priority

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Saturday 01 May 2010 aga wrote:



> 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. I have seen it lately too many times, that the payee
> >  changes its name on the transaction.  The matcher can use some
> > improvement though.  I will be working in this area after the 4.x
> > release.
> 
> This is getting worse!  And I don't think it's me.  It's these same two
>  items.
> 
> Item 1)  Sefton - council tax
> 			- scheduled monthly payment £149
> 			- next due date 28 April
> Item 2) NPower - gas
> 			- scheduled monthly payment £55 (current value, should 
now have been
>  £161) - next due date 28 April
> 
> I downloaded my bank statement via OFX including these two lines -
> 28 Apr	Sefton 	£149.88
> 28 Apr	NPower	£161.00
> 
> Result
> 28 Apr	Sefton	£161	Scheduled entry matched with NPower D/L entry 
for £161.
> 						Bank entry NPower £161
> 						Your entry Sefton    £161
> 28 Apr	Sefton	£149.88	not matched
> 
> So, the NPower download of £161 has been matched with the Sefton schedule
>  of £149.88.  The Sefton download has not been matched with the schedule
>  for the same value.  The NPower schedule is shown in grey for 1 May.
> 
> In brief, the match occurred on different amounts for different payees.  I
> created a fresh file and set up the two schedules and downloaded the OFX
>  file and reproduced the problem.
> 
> Something's amiss, I think.

Do you have the 'The amount is an estimate because it varies for each payment' 
turned on for any of them?

-- 

Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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