wish: on main window, accounts have 'Reconciled date'

[Chris]

When I used GnuCash, it was helpful to know when the last time a certain account was reconciled.

In GnuCash, reconciliation is a separate process, rather than just toggling a transaction as reconciled, you have to match account balances - this is more complex, so I'm assuming that recording the date for each account every time one of its transactions was marked as 'Reconciled' is a fairly easy hack. :)

For instance, if my credit card closes on the 12th of each month, and today is the 14th, I should be able to see at a glance that the prior reconciliation date is in the past. I know that it has closed and I need to add my interest charge transaction and reconcile the previous month's transactions.

Also, it wouldn't be necessary for the scope of this feature request that HomeBank knows when the card close date is, but that would be very nice, too. A little icon in the left column to alert the user that for credit accounts that revolve in this way (ie not checking accounts) have entered a new statement period.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

2 questions:

A) as now we have 3 status: none, cleared, reconciled, do you consider to only track date when a txn goes from none/cleared => reconciled ?
I mean If you change a txn from reconciled => cleared or none, the date changes as well ?

B) let's say the debit date of your CC account in on 12th, what is the trigger to display or not display the icon, (because between 2 consecutive month you are between 2 statement, I mean on 11th as well) ?
for example it might be that the date is 13th and you already have unreconciled txn on the CC card on 13 th

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

So at last:

A) I will update the last reconciled date everytime a txn change of status from * to reconciled

B) No question in fact

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

idea:
if in the list I just display not a date but just a (x days, or wekk, month) just after the acocunt name) ?

My Account (3d) | xxxx | xxx | ....
My Saving (15d) | xxxx | xxx | ....

in case here last reconcided date is 3 days ago and 15days ago ?

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

I will display the last reconciled date into a tooltip

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

the reconciled today date is saved anytime you reconcile a txn into an account.
this date is displayed into a tooltip:

Account name

last reconciled on xx xx/xx/xxxx

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

please open another wish for the second part below, as this is more to be handled in an alert or message feature.

Also, it wouldn't be necessary for the scope of this feature request that HomeBank knows when the card close date is, but that would be very nice, too. A little icon in the left column to alert the user that for credit accounts that revolve in this way (ie not checking accounts) have entered a new statement period.