Comment 5 for bug 1756681

Hello,
Having multiple entry points for a transaction may confuse folks. I do
like only having one, personally, but I do forget to click the positive or
negative button at times and then have to go back and fix it. I have never
used the plus or minus on the right-hand side of the amount. Funny part is
that I hadn't even thought about it until you mentioned it. I just
highlight the amount input area and enter the value (I guess you could have
a popup dialogue that opens when you click the amount area, with a number
"pad" to select the click the numbers, to enter the amount value...that
might be handy). it is the following step that I forget occasionally,
which is to add the negative....by default it is positive which is okay. I
still think the best workflow would be to reverse the Payment and Amount so
that the type of payment selected would automatically add the positive or
negative to the Amount. I used Money for years until it went away and that
is when I went to HomeBank. Money didn't require a positive or negative
input since it was dependent on the transaction type.

Thanks again for all of your work on this. I use it multiple times per
week but only as bank account register and forecasting. I don't really use
the other functions.

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:30 AM Maxime DOYEN <email address hidden>
wrote:

> After a little review of some other apps:
> mmex, mint, kmymoney, quicken, money pus, ynab, moneywiz and ibank
>
> I do think the better would be to have 2 different input:
> Expense: [xxxxx] Income: [xxxxx]
>
> What do you think ?
>
> And BTW do you think the - + button on the right of the actual Amount
> input are usefull?
> (as I do think to remove it in the meantime).
>
>
> ** Changed in: homebank
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> wish: ease debit/credit/transfer transaction seizure
>
> Status in HomeBank:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Hello,
> First off I want to thank you for this application. It is very useful
> and I have used it for years. This comment is not really a bug but a
> suggestion. When you use the check register and add a transaction, you put
> the amount and then the payment type. Ideally, you would select the
> payment type first and then the amount, then if it is a deposit it could
> automatically make the amount positive but if it is a debit, it would
> automatically make it a negative. You don't know how many times that my
> account has been thrown off because I forgot to add a negative and then had
> to hunt for the reason that my account would not balance to the banks.
>
> I using 5.0.9 on Windows 10.
>
> Thank you,
> Carl
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