I’m trying out Actual and have imported my bank’s (Sparkasse) data for my checking account via CSV. In the CSV import, I obviously had to set the correct fields and was a bit confused because Actual only has the “Payee” field while my CSVs have IBAN, BIC and a free text name (i.e. “Employer GmbH”.)
IBAN is preferable because it’s a unique ID while the free text name can be empty or possibly even change(?). (Don’t know how that works.)
OTOH, the free text name is preferable because I (as a human) can use it to infer the actual payee while the IBANs are just a bunch of numbers.
Is it possible to use IBAN aswell as the free text name or have a mapping between IBAN and a display name?
How do you handle that?
Sorry :) I‘m entering them completely manually, and anything that comes in (or rather goes out 🥲) is done via schedules. Whilst you need to post them manually, the details (payee, amount, date) are prefilles. You could also check out GoCardless, which syncs via PSD2. But it seems to have troubles with related entries (e.g. Vorgemerkt and gebucht umsätze are entered regardless, so you may have duplicates where one‘s amount will have to be set to 0.