Bug 339132

Summary:	Would like an option to suppress downloaded transactions for $0.00
Product:	[Applications] kmymoney	Reporter:	george
Component:	general	Assignee:	KMyMoney Devel Mailing List <kmymoney-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ostroffjh
Priority:	NOR
Version:	git (master)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description george 2014-09-16 22:50:30 UTC

Some downloads contain transactions for $0.00 (Discover Card almost always does this).  This causes KMM to create a new payee (usually the payee field is some dumb message) which nees to be cleaned up as well as a ledger entry that is total nonsense.  This is a request for an option to ignore downloaded transactions for $0.00.

Comment 1 Jack 2014-09-16 22:55:46 UTC

Just as a temporary workaround, is there anything at all sufficiently common in the payee field that you can use to attract all those transactions to a "dummy" payee?  I do that for many of the transactions I download that do not need a payee (mostly transfers from my checking account for online payment of various credit cards or other accounts.)  I still need to edit them, but at least I don't also need to remove the payee every time.

Comment 2 george 2014-09-18 01:41:37 UTC

(In reply to Jack from comment #1)
> Just as a temporary workaround, is there anything at all sufficiently common
> in the payee field that you can use to attract all those transactions to a
> "dummy" payee?  I do that for many of the transactions I download that do
> not need a payee (mostly transfers from my checking account for online
> payment of various credit cards or other accounts.)  I still need to edit
> them, but at least I don't also need to remove the payee every time.

Yeah, I have a payee called "DELETE THIS" to try and catch them.  The big offender is the Discover CC.  Now I just caught them sending a zero amount on a legal Payee.

FWIW I sent Discover CC a note about it.  They even seemed to care.  Time will tell.

Comment 3 Jack 2023-07-09 23:08:31 UTC

I'm about to file a new wishlist item for an option to prevent the importer from creating new payees, as I find they are much more likely to be bogus, based on irrelevant words in the banks payee or memo fields.  So, it seems closely related to this one, but I suspect they serve sufficiently different purposes that they should stay separate.