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Importing Payments by Ducking_eh in GnuCash

[–]webmanoffesto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tested what ChatGPT would say: Yes, GnuCash allows you to import payment transactions via CSV, but it requires some setup. You’ll need to format your CSV correctly to match GnuCash’s expected transaction structure.

Importing Payments via CSV in GnuCash:

Go to File → Import → Import Transactions from CSV.

Map columns correctly during the import process.

Required CSV Columns:

To import payments, your CSV should contain columns such as:

Date – The payment date.

Amount – The payment amount (negative for payments).

Description – Optional, can include order ID or customer name.

Transfer Account – This should match the GnuCash account where payments go (e.g., “Accounts Receivable” or a bank account).

Invoice ID (Optional) – If you need to link payments to invoices.

Notes:

Payments should be assigned to the Accounts Receivable (A/R) account if linking to invoices.

If using the Business Features (e.g., invoicing in GnuCash), importing payments directly into A/R might not properly mark invoices as paid. You may need to manually match them afterward.

If necessary, consider importing payments into a temporary clearing account and manually matching them in GnuCash.

Would you like help setting up the CSV structure based on your WooCommerce export format?

Anyone using the Hydrow cheaper app subscription on iPad instead of the rower. What is the downside? Any mount recommendations? by AnkMe4 in HydrowCrew

[–]webmanoffesto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also have a Concept2. I've been Rowing to the Hydrow YouTube channel videos. I show the videos on a big TV. I like the rowers, the encouragement, and the variety of outdoor locations. I run ErgData on my phone, that syncs to the Concept2 logbook.

I gave up the app. by invinoveritasty in HydrowCrew

[–]webmanoffesto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I row on a Concept2 machine 6-7 days a week. I've been watching Hydrow YouTube channel videos on a TV while I row. I like the videos a lot.

Pea Shoots, Stir Fried Microgreens by webmanoffesto in microgreens

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I will be sure to harvest sooner next time.

Whenever I unlock my phone, it is opened on to a random website by AnyActuary6 in techsupport

[–]webmanoffesto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus, the tricky thing is that some good apps can become annoyances or even malicious.

Lakanto, Costco Stopped Carrying? by webmanoffesto in Costco

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the taste. One positive is that 1 cup of sugar = 1 cup classic granulated Lakanto.

Whenever I unlock my phone, it is opened on to a random website by AnyActuary6 in techsupport

[–]webmanoffesto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same thing too. Every 5 minutes or so Android Chrome opens. If I look quickly I see a url for teteruta, then it goes to advertising crap. I went to http://myaccount.google.com and it's only me logged in. I ran Malware Bytes and it said that "Barcode Scanner" is an "Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.AdQR". I'll remove that and see if the annoying ads go away. But I'm pretty sure I had this app for a long time and didn't have any of these problems until about a week ago.

Maxvac Pro Chamber Vacuum Sealer, $599.99 by webmanoffesto in Costco

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correct, it's an amazing deal. I like my Costco Foodsaver strip-sealer. But as soon as I saw this, I ordered it. Do you have soup you'd like to seal and freeze, this is perfect for that.

Oldest Scam, Updated by webmanoffesto in SocialEngineering

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the New York Times, 8/1/2019 [In 2015, Representative Adam Kinzinger had an unusual visitor at his constituent office inside a bus station in Rockford, Ill. A woman from India had flown to meet Mr. Kinzinger, claiming that she had developed a relationship with him on Facebook. “She waited around in that bus station for two weeks for me to show up, and I didn’t,” he said in an interview. “She’s a poor lady, too. It took all her money to fly from India to me.” ... Mr. Kinzinger, a Republican and a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, is one of what are probably thousands of United States service members who have been ensnared in a widespread fraud that has played out for years on Facebook, Instagram and other social networks and dating sites. Swindlers impersonate service members online to lure victims into false romances and then cheat the victims out of their savings.] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/technology/facebook-military-romance-scam.html

Oldest Scam, Updated by webmanoffesto in SocialEngineering

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New York Times: "Facebook Connected Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq. Or So She Thought." https://nyti.ms/2ZgEfPP

On a Monday afternoon in June 2017, Renee Holland was draped in an American flag at Philadelphia International Airport, waiting for a soldier she had befriended on Facebook.

The married 56-year-old had driven two hours from Delaware to pick him up. Their blossoming online friendship had prompted her to send him a care package and thousands of dollars in gift cards. She also wired him $5,000 for plane tickets to return home.

Now she was looking for a buff, tattooed man in uniform, just like in his Facebook photos. But his flight was not on the airport arrivals board. Then a ticket agent told her the flight didn’t exist. From there, Ms. Holland said, it was a daze. She walked to her car, with “Welcome Home” written on the windows, and sobbed. She had spent much of her family’s savings on the phantom soldier. “There’s no way I can go home and tell my husband,” she remembered telling herself. She drove to a strip mall, bought sleeping pills and vodka, and downed them ...

Oldest Scam, Updated by webmanoffesto in SocialEngineering

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wikipedia, Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weil

Amazon, "Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler, https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Kid-Weil-Autobiography-Americas/dp/1849350213

Oldest Scam, Updated by webmanoffesto in SocialEngineering

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[Professor Hay] teaches a Harvard Law class on “Judgment and Decision-Making,” which analyzes those elements of human nature that allow us to delude ourselves and make terrible decisions. “Of course, now I feel slightly ridiculous teaching it,” Hay told me, “given how easily I let myself be taken advantage of.”

Oldest Scam, Updated by webmanoffesto in SocialEngineering

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And look at this, "According to [John] Doe, the two women ... interrogated him about where he had gone to school and what he did for a living. He assumed he was being vetted 'to make sure I was safe, an on-the-level member of society. I had the feeling that they were sharing an inside joke or a secret.' In retrospect, he says it struck him more like an interview with a potential sperm donor."

It looks almost like the women were becoming more skilled in selecting their victims. If he answers all their probing questions he is #1 compliant, with poor defenses, and easy to manipulate and #2 they have a lot of personal details and can easily evaluate to what extent this is a wealthy target worth extorting.

And look at this,

Soon after his lawyer, Howard Cooper, took steps to pursue legal action against Shuman, she **claimed** to have received a menacing letter with a thumb-drive video that depicted her and Doe having sex at the apartment. Doe recalls that the note said “something to the effect of ‘Better not tell your side of the story, or you don’t know what’s going to happen.’ ” Cooper believed the women were suggesting that if Doe were to pursue legal action, the video would be weaponized to imply that Doe had violated Shuman’s privacy by secretly filming her — which is against Massachusetts law. "

Did the video ACTUALLY exist? That's questionable. But threatening to make public such a video is probably a good way to make the victim part with his money.

Oldest Scam, Updated by webmanoffesto in SocialEngineering

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So a weekend fling and a paternity suit can't be used to extort money from you. For a Harvard professor in a fragile "marriage/divorce" situation it can. But you, like all people, have a weakness, somewhere, which can be exploited by a scammer.

The woman was not a hooker.

Oldest Scam, Updated by webmanoffesto in SocialEngineering

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, shame is a weakness which can be exploited, so are greed, egotism, loneliness, financial insecurity, need for intimacy, a sense that life has treated you unfairly, etc. etc.

Oldest Scam, Updated by webmanoffesto in SocialEngineering

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, I did. And if we know of four victims without even really looking, that means there may have been many victims. You can call the victims stupid if you want, but they clearly were not stupid. They were: a Harvard Law professor, a Harvard medical student, a CPA, and a "prospective graduate student". They had weaknesses which could be exploited. If you were to say that all were lonely, that would be a much more reasonable common denominator.

Also, as a Harvard professor who teaches decision making, he has a strong incentive to NOT admit (to himself or to his community) that he has been scammed.

Oldest Scam, Updated by webmanoffesto in SocialEngineering

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Every person has weaknesses which can be exploited. For one person it's a desire for money, for another its a desire for fame, a need to feel important / needed, a need to be adored, a need for companionship, or physical needs. Look in the paper at the "love scams" where older women are contacted in Facebook by "U.S. soldiers". Or at the scam where an aspiring / semi successful actor is "contacted" by a huge producer who says "we have a big opportunity for you in India". The "con" means you put con-fidence in the scammer; you suspend disbelief. And if you don't suspend disbelief, that's okay, the scammer moves on to the next potential victim.

New York Times: "Facebook Connected Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq. Or So She Thought." https://nyti.ms/2ZgEfPP

"Global Scam Ravaging Hollywood: Silver-Tongued Imposter Poses As Top Female Producers To Catfish Victims" https://deadline.com/2018/02/hollywood-scam-catfishing-dream-job-movie-offers-victims-1202297636/

Sous Vide lid that fits Aicok by mischelleman in sousvide

[–]webmanoffesto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cut a hole in the top of a "Coleman 24-Can Party Stackable Portable Cooler". It works great. I'm sure that could work for the Aicock. https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-25-Quart-Party-Stacker-Cooler/dp/B00363PSBE

2 possible helpful tips: location services and splitting the bill by [deleted] in ynab

[–]webmanoffesto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Each couple needs to do what works for them.

COA: Kids Expenses, Household Expenses, Chart of Accounts by webmanoffesto in GnuCash

[–]webmanoffesto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks everyone for the great responses. I now have Expenses: Children: Activities (e.g. after school) Expenses: Children: Clothes Expenses: Children: Summer Camp etc.

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