Hi, new to kmm - trying to get an understanding of how the OFX importer assigns payees and categories.

I think I have the payee assignment worked out now.

The assignment of categories seems to depend on the transactions already in the account - is that right?

If someone could share a few words or direct me to a more detailed explanation of these processes, that would be great.

Many thanks, Steve

KMM is really poor for assigning categories when you are starting off and there are no demo files to help you understand how it works. Typically you would have a heap of existing transactions in bank account(s). Best to use something like qifqif or csv2ofx. [Both of these will require a python install which is OK if you take it slowly but is another pain for new users.]

OK, thanks for that. I can import a qif (exported from another app) which already has categories assigned. So that works well.

Trouble is the assignments are per account only and not across the whole KMM file.
So if I open a new account in KMM - no assignments...

Are you saying that once an account in KMM has a lot of categories assigned, the assignment process improves?

stevea wrote:...Are you saying that once an account in KMM has a lot of categories assigned, the assignment process improves?

Well, if you are using an external process and are lucky with your data the assignment process becomes almost automatic. I think you are having problems with Process to Match Imported Transactions: "Simply put - you don't".

KMM has problems but many more good things than bad for me so I would still recommend it, and it is under active development. Try it for your situation and post your experience back here for others.

I would stil like to understand how the category assignment process actually works

There is an attempt to assign a category automatically based on existing transactions for the same payee. I'm not sure how it works, but I think it will use the category of the last transaction with the same payee. The best is to assign a default category. Find the payee in the Payees menu and open the Default Account tab. Click on Suggest a Category: chances are, it'll be correct right away. If not, just change it.

Thanks, Zebulon - I had not seen that Default Category tab - very nice.
So it means one has full control over assignments of categories.

The Matching tab for payees is excellent too.
I really like the way that if payees are merged, the names of all the merged payees appear in the matching list