Is ther eany way to"unaccept" a transaction?

I have a transaction that needed to be manually matched. But through a finger slip, it got "accepted". Is there any way to un-accept it so that I can match it properly? Thanks! /bernie\

Reply to
Bernie Cosell
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If I'm correctly understanding what you are asking, why not simply delete it, and change the one you wanted to match it to "cleared"?

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Ken Blake, MVP

Elaborating upon, and concurring with, Ken's response. You can't "download and match it again". There's a mechanism within Q that prevents "second downloads of the same item" from being presented again. SO, you'll have to manually perform the actions to get to where you belong. If your "fumble finger" (and, we all have them) created a transaction, delete it. IF your "ff" matched to an incorrect transaction, un-clear it (via selecting the item, right click, click "Reconcile" and click "not cleared"). THEN, "clear" the correct item via essentially the same process.

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danbrown

} I have a transaction that needed to be manually matched. But through a } finger slip, it got "accepted". Is there any way to un-accept it so that I } can match it properly?

Thanks for the info -- Yes, there's no way to "unaccept" a transaction [although I think I read that if did "accept all" you CAN reverse that!]. So what you have is a wrong transaction that was entered by the mis-accept and the right transaction sitting there in the register forlorn and forgotten. and as you all said, it is easily fixed: just delete the wrong transaction and change the status of the missed one to 'C'. Problem solved, no big deal at all.

The *only* downside to this is with split deposits: if you have a single deposit that actually spans several entries in your register [e.g., I often enter the individual deposits when I'm *supposed* to deposit them, but only make the trip to the bank occasionally and a bunch go in as a single deposit]. If you do a "match transactions manually", Quicken does a slightly magical thing: it takes all those separate deposits and bundles them into the single deposit that the bank actually transacted, with each of the individual transactions made into "splits" in the new single deposit-transaction. I can't tell any actual practical difference between the two [having separate deposits hand-"C"-ed and having Quicken combine them into a split deposit and "C" that. [There's no way, I believe] to get Quicken to do that same trick for *you*. that is, let you select several transactions and merge them into a single one with each of the original appearing as splits].

/Bernie\

Reply to
Bernie Cosell

But assuming that you don't make finger slips too often, it still shouldn't be a big deal to create what you want manually.

Reply to
Ken Blake, MVP

If you have a good backup from just before the download just revert to that and to the on-line update again

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Zaidy036

The *only* downside to this is with split deposits: if you have a single deposit that actually spans several entries in your register [e.g., I often enter the individual deposits when I'm *supposed* to deposit them, but only make the trip to the bank occasionally and a bunch go in as a single deposit]. If you do a "match transactions manually", Quicken does a slightly magical thing: it takes all those separate deposits and bundles them into the single deposit that the bank actually transacted, with each of the individual transactions made into "splits" in the new single deposit-transaction. I can't tell any actual practical difference between the two [having separate deposits hand-"C"-ed and having Quicken combine them into a split deposit and "C" that.

[There's no way, I believe] to get Quicken to do that same trick for *you*. that is, let you select several transactions and merge them into a single one with each of the original appearing as splits].

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Personally, I don't like the method you use, because individual payee names are lost from the payee name field. Quicken puts them in the split Memo field, but those names are totally distinct from the names in the Quicken payee name field: no multiple selection on Memo, no sorting on Memo, and no subtotaling on Memo. And a search of the payee name field will not find payee names in the Memo field.

I use the intermediate account approach, which not only retains all the characteristics of the original transactions, but can easily be dealt with manually in your situation where you unwittingly Accepted the downloaded deposit transaction, since it only requires a single transfer transaction to "deposit" the funds into the Quicken bank account.

Have said that, I believe there is a way to recover to the result you would have gotten had you correctly Accepted the downloaded transaction. But I'm not sure my alternative is as good as just reverting to a backup, as already suggested.

I think you can create (or download) a QIF file deposit transaction for the deposit. In any event, the transaction needs special formatting to be imported directly into the bank account - see the directions in this Quicken Live Community FAQ:

formatting link
I believe when you import a new QIF file deposit transaction, you will get the same opportunity to Accept the transaction and to manually match it to your multiple existing register deposit transactions.

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John Pollard

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