Bug 514813

Summary: enhancement. for credit card entry
Product: [Applications] kmymoney Reporter: Roland <iowamagpie>
Component: generalAssignee: KMyMoney Devel Mailing List <kmymoney-devel>
Status: NEEDSINFO WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based)   
OS: Linux   
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Description Roland 2026-01-19 00:49:00 UTC 
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Credit Card charge entry into ledger needs to be a negative number. It will then show in red in account view. If a person is tracking every transaction on card. You have a problem if If card balance is paid to 0 and you get a credit on the card and enter as a payment. The balance will show as negative. If charge are entered as a negative and payments as positive will correct the problem and know this will affect other calculations. This will allow you to use prepaid credit/debit cards in the credit card account.

 When you are entering payer/payee you are asked about saving. When you answer no it blanks the line. You might be entering a payer/payee you might only use the one time.

You might think about use negative entries in loan program. 
 Using :5.2.1-db083e7    Linux Mint 22.3 22.3 (x86_64)

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Jack 2026-01-23 22:25:43 UTC 
I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for.   Credit card accounts are Liability Accounts, so a positive balance is an amount you owe.  You can use a Credit Card account for a pre-paid card, but the balance will show as negative - you owe a negative account.  I can see how it could be confusing, but I think it makes sense once you get used to how it works.

Again, as for blanking the Payee field if you say you do not want to add it, what would you prefer.  Even if you plan to use it only once, you can add it as a new payee or not.  Personally, I have payees such as "Misc Individual" or "Misc Food Store" for people or stores I will only pay once.  KMM keeps a list of payees, and within a transaction (actually within the splits of a transaction) the payee is not stored as a string, but a pointer to the referenced payee.