Re: Checking & Split bugs

Yaron,
These issues need to be reported at http://help.infinitekind.com/ -- they
won't get support's attention here.
-Brett

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Yaron Y. goland <[email protected]> wrote:

> Bug #1 - If you take an existing entry that uses a split and then edit all
> the values in the entry and save them the resulting entry will now have 2x
> as many split entries. It will have the original values and the new values.
>
> Bug #2 - When processing an unreconciled transaction (in this case a
> paycheck) one will get a suggestion for 'similar payees' which have the
> right number and type of splits but not necessarily the right values for
> each split. So being the naive user I would click on the split button on one
> of the 'similar payees' entries. Fix up the values. And then press confirm.
> This even seemed to work since it associated the right splits with the right
> values with the current transaction. BUT it ALSO changed the original entry
> that the similar payee came from! This caused me agonizing problems when
> suddenly my accounts didn't add up! It took a while to realize what was
> happening.
>
> Note that Bug #1 and #2 may be related since I only run into #1 when fixing
> problems caused by #2.
>
> A general problem I also find is that when matching checks the system has a
> couple of really odd behaviors.
>
> Odd Behavior #1 - If I manually fix the payee for a check, even though that
> payee exists about a billion times in the account with the same category,
> the proper category for that payee isn't automatically entered nor is it
> suggested for 'current transaction'.
>
> Odd Behavior #2 - The matching algorithm is just odd. For example, I have
> many instances of checks with exactly the same amount that go to exactly the
> same payee with the same category. These checks happen 2-3 times each and
> every month. Yet the system never matches the checks (with the exact
> amounts, down to the penny) with the repeatedly used payee.
>
>    Thanks,
>
>            Yaron
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