Closed riclage closed 5 years ago
Why can't you do this using the existing features? Just when you are importing CSV of savings enter Transfers:Checking_Savings
for the account when prompted, then do the revers when importing csv of checking ...
Most of the time the other account does not have a csv. It could be, for example, a virtual account or a "transfer" to a cash account.
Also, in a savings account, by doing the transfer pattern, I wouldn't need to bother with using the csv of that account. Since I'm almost always only transferring money to it, just importing the csv of my current account would do the job.
When the csv row being imported refers to a transfer to another account, it would be great if icsv2ledger could support the "transfer" pattern as described here:
According to the original poster, this pattern has the following advantages, e.g.:
I could try to make a PR to support the above but not sure how to approach it. Maybe we can add a third parameter to the mapping file to indicate a "transfer" pattern account?