Feature Request
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fortnightly frequency for scheduled transactions
allow frequency of fortnightly for scheduled transactions. For example,
days 1, 15, 29, and the next date would be the following month 14 days after the 29th of this month.1 voteThank you for your idea. I’m happy to inform you this is already possible though:
Choose Frequency “Weekly” and then select “Every 2 weeks”.
Choose 1 as your start date. The next iterations will be on the days you mentioned.
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When an account is doubleclicked, which is already open, don't open a new tab but switch focus to the existing tab.
When an account is doubleclicked in the account tab and the account is already open in a tab, do not open a new tab but switch focus to the existing tab.
4 votesThank you for your suggestion.
However GnuCash is designed to do what you ask automatically. I verified it works like that on my system (Fedora 16, GnuCash 2.4.11 and development snapshot). If it doesn’t on your system, that should be considered a bug.
If you see new tabs apearing all the time, please consider creating a bugreport in bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/). More information on how to submit a bugreport can be found here:
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Add the possibility to assign an account a start value at a later date and not at creation
Add the possibility to assign the start value also at a later date after creation of an account.
I'd like to be able to start adding entries without last years ledger to be closed. For the opening balance I need the possiblity to add the start value at a later time.
Either add the functionality to the account settings or create an account which is neutral and not calculated for balancing.
1 voteYou can create an “Opening Balance” at any time by creating a transaction with Equity:Opening Balances as the other account.
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Avoid security problems
Fix GnuCash to avoid the following problem with F-Secure. I scanned the PC on 2012.01.25 and got my report... Included was this portion pertains to GnuCash 2.4.9
"Result: 2 malware found
Suspicious:W32/Malware!Gemini (Suspected infection)C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin\ofxdump.exe C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin\sqlite3.exe"1 voteThis is a problem of F-Secure, but not of gnucash. We have secured our way of obtaining those executables (to my knowledge). There is nothing to do for us here.
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Add a further option of a "4 Weekly" time frame in Schedule Transactions
It appears that Banks are again being sneaky and making a requisit that a large deposit be made into an account every 4 Weeks as opposed to Monthly. This is requirement to obtain a better interest rate but will default to a poor rate if the regular deposit is not made in a particular month. As you can see - at some stage there will be a month without a valid deposit and therefore interest on the whole of that account will be forfeit or at a poorer rate.
This feature may save the loss of interest - Make the…
1 voteAs you discovered, this is already possible.
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multiple currencies in expenses
Imagine going on an international business trip and have the need to report all expenses. Each transaction would need to be in different currencies.
Is it possible to allow a different currency for each transaction when entering expenses. Each expense account can have its default currency but each transaction could be made in any currency with the right exchange rate. This would need to be done within each expense account rather than creating different accounts for each currency and then transferring the monies around. This is much easier to handle for us non-accountants who have to travel internationally on a…2 votesThank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately it won’t be possible to implement this the way you have in mind because your suggestion breaks one of GnuCash’ core design decisions namely: one account has exactly one currency associated with it. So it’s not possible to have one expense account which holds splits in different currencies.
However I don’t think this is necessary either if you look at the expenses from the money flow perspective:
Suppose you pay an expense in cash in EUR (a foreign currency). That would mean you have cash in your possession in EUR. So you should have a cash account in GnuCash in the EUR currency. Paying the expense from that account, GnuCash will ask you for a conversion rate because the expense account is managed in say CAD.
If you paid for the expense instead from a bank account in CAD currency, the bank…
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Android tablet version?
I am currently trying out GNU Cash on my Macbook Pro and am very impressed.
It would be nice to sync data with my iPhone.
Also, how about a version for my Android tablet?1 votePorting GnuCash to any mobile device is beyond the scope of this project. Sorry.
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3 votes
This goes far beyond the scope of this project. This project is about a PC-based software.
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3 votes
Thank you for your idea. This is however already possible now: setup a monthly scheduled transaction to run “Every 12 months”.
Given this easy alternative, it is very unlikely that a separate yearly frequency will be added, because this will break compatibility with older gnucash versions.
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3 votes
Unfortunately this file format is unknown to the current developers and it is probably also not freely available. Hence this open source project will not implement this export feature.
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1 vote
This is a duplicate. The feature is already filed here: https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1470507-configuration-option-for-backup-location?ref=title
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flexible file locations
I would like it to be possible to relocate the files in c:\user\me... under windows to a directory of my choice.
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There is no new feature to add in this request. It appears to be a user support question instead, which has been answered.
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Create a centralized repository for user-created custom reports
It would be nice to have an 'exchange' of some sort where people, who have taken the time to create custom reports, can share them. Giving others the ability to improve and tweak them, then release them, will increase the number of custom reports significantly, and could lead to a larger array of default reports included in GnuCash.
3 votesThis is a very nice idea. However, it requires some people who have a vision of an active (possibly moderated) user-community. This is not what the gnucash developer people currently can do or have in view. If anyone else wants to start such a site that collects and promotes such a feedback, the developers will happily support them, but the developers will not be able to provide such a place themselves for now. Sorry for that.
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Add a screen scraping functionality/plugin.
Direct communication via OFX works nicely, when you can get it. This may require some considerable user effort for customization but manual imports and some institutions total lack of OFX support can be even more frustrating. Find a way for users to share their scrape templates. The now open sourced Wesabe code may be useful along these lines.
2 votesUnfortunately a screen-scraping functionality exceeds the capacity of a volunteer project such as ours, because it would always have to be adapted quickly to all changes in the website. This is beyond the scope of the gnucash project, sorry.
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Allow different dates in split transactions
It should be possible to enter a transaction with different dates for the two halves of the split?
The reason for this is that when a transfer happens between two bank accounts at different banks (for example a bank and a credit card or Paypal) there is a time lag (usually a few days) between the credit or debit being sent from one bank and being received by the other bank. This means that the same transaction would have different dates in the two accounts.
When I download the statements, I have to choose whether to keep the date from…
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Inventory system (mini inventory)
It would be nice to have "mini" inventory, in which I can receive good for sales, maintain a stock. And it would be nicer, if it is "connected" to invoice, so I can invoice my customers for goods they bought.
126 votesThis request is understandable and useful for some users. However, to be honest this won’t be implemented in GnuCash for quite some time (read: years) to come. GnuCash in its current design is targeted towards a home user or small business user, where the financial book-keeping is available. An additional inventory system (beyond using stock accounts not for stocks but for pieces of inventory) is a completely new system, which is not planned and easily possible in GnuCash for some years to come. Because of this, we have to decline this request for now.
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add version control to binaries so Secunia PSI can track against the latest version
Secunia PSI tracks version control to insure the latest version of each software package is at the latest version to prevent security risks by using older software
1 voteWe have no inclination to start to research about some additional external software we know nothing about. Either someone (e.g. you) provides the necessary technical information on what we need to do, or simply nothing will happen in that direction.
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Investment Account: Stock
a) Please introduce a feature to view accounts sorted (A to Z or Z to A) in Advanced Portfolio report.
b) Please add feature to show different sub accounts sorted (A to Z or Z to A) in Accounts window.3 votesYou ask for three different things here: Your headline talks about one thing, the point “a)” about another, and “b)” about yet another. Please file separate proposals for different ideas. Thanks.
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GnuCash needs to be more simple, easy, beautiful, portable as...
There are enough and more Financial Accounting softwares available today both commercial and open source.
So the only reason that my friends and me use GnuCash is because its a Personal Finance Manager BUT GnuCash will have an edge only if it Stands out as a Personal Finance solution that could be used by any lay person. Even though GnuCash claims to be easy to use Its still not as easy as the Software Personal Finances Pro.
I wish GnuCash was as simple, easy, beautiful, and portable as the software Personal Finances Pro which I had been using for quite…
3 votesThanks for the feedback. However, this request is just too unspecific and goes away from gnucash’s goals too much, so we can just decline it. Please use this forum for specific new features, not for requests like “please make you software look like competitor xy”.
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