Just installed KMyMoney Version 4.7.2 on Win7. I'm migrating from MS Money as it's not going to work on Win10.
I've imported a whole load of my accounts from MS Money via QIF, which went well. However, I have a problem entering Transfer transactions. I must be missing something as a newbie. Any help gratefully received!
I simply need to transfer money from one account to another. If I open the "To" account and click on "New" (transaction), and then click on "Transfer", I expect to see "Transfer From" and "Transfer To" drop-downs, listing all my accounts. But I don't.
I get a "From" field, which lists all the payees I've ever paid money to or received money from, and a "Transfer From" field, listing all accounts. I had to create a new Payee called "Transfers" in order to get the transaction to be entered. But the transaction is entered in both accounts with Details of "Transfers", not with information about which account the money was transferred from or to. This doesn't provide the information I need.
How do I get the "Details" of a Transfer transaction to show which account the money was transferred to/from? Do I have to add all my account names as new Payees - seems a bit daft?
I've read the online help documentation, and it just says use "...Transfer for money moving from one account to another. The transaction methods and the differences between them are discussed in more detail elsewhere." But it doesn't say where, and I can't find it anywhere.
Any advice gratefully received!
John

You almost got it.
In the account you're transferring from just add the a/c the transfer is to & amount, leave the 'Pay To' empty and enter the transaction.

The two a/cs will each show the appropriate from/to in the unfilled Pay To section. (This applies to any blank Pay/From entry, ie if you leave it blank then anything entered in the Memo field will show there instead).

Edit your previous transaction, delete the Pay To text, save it and you should be good to go.

HTH

I agree with jmcleod.

But on the other hand you can define a separate "payee" for special transfer transactions i.e. cash withdrawal or credit card clearing.
I use this for most of my transfer transactions.

Thanks to both of you for your advice. I'll go with jmacleod's suggestion - that's exactly what I wanted!

Regards
John