Split transaction in a TRANSFER

When using the TRANSFER option from one account to
another, I do not find a way to split the transaction to
different subaccounts. Am I overlooking something?

I.E.....
I've received a check from a customer. Part of the
check would be my commission, the other goes to the
Insurance company when they send me the bill. I would
want to be able to transfer part of this from my 'Customer
Premium Payments' account to my 'Business' income account
as commissions, and the balance to my 'Premiums Due'
account as owed to insurance companies. This way,
the 'Premium Due' account will show how much is waiting to
be sent to the insurance companies at any given time.

Dick
Thu Sep 02 12:19:21 CDT 2004

You can have a split with two transfers. You can not split the elements of a
split, be they Transfer, Income, or Expense. Money also has no notion of
Subaccounts. Never has. For these reasons, I'm not sure I understand your
question.

I think you want a transaction with split elements like this:
Transfer:Business
Transfer:Premiums Due
This is doable.

Or, you may want a transaction with split elements like this:
Business Income:Commissions
Transfer:Premiums Due
This is also doable.

In M02 and later, you can't create a scheduled "Transfer" with splits,
though you can enter them all day long. This is the DUMBEST thing about the
M02 and newer Scheduled Transactions interface: it won't let you schedule
many transactions you can readily enter.

If you want to schedule a transaction split into multiple transfers in M02
and later, create a bill or deposit, split it, and enter Transfer:[name of
acct] as the categories, even if you have to type it and cannot select it
from the pull-downs.

<turnerinsurance@epride.net> wrote in message
news:4dec01c490ff$fef759e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> When using the TRANSFER option from one account to
> another, I do not find a way to split the transaction to
> different subaccounts. Am I overlooking something?
>
> I.E.....
> I've received a check from a customer. Part of the
> check would be my commission, the other goes to the
> Insurance company when they send me the bill. I would
> want to be able to transfer part of this from my 'Customer
> Premium Payments' account to my 'Business' income account
> as commissions, and the balance to my 'Premiums Due'
> account as owed to insurance companies. This way,
> the 'Premium Due' account will show how much is waiting to
> be sent to the insurance companies at any given time.