How to convert CSV files with splits

This tutorial shows how to map splits. See it as a video at https://youtu.be/TNrys1u8Ec0

This tutorial was prepared using an obsolete converter, but applicable to the current app in the same way.

Splits are a difficult topic, but the converter tries to help you, as much, as possible, to allow you to create the transaction with more, than one split. So, usually transactions are without splits - it would be all the amount goes to a specific category, and that's it. Not all formats support splits, but the converter support splits as per output format. So, how it is done? This tutorial is applicable to all CSV2 converters and all Bank2 converters, they all work the same way, as a Macintosh or Windows, and either, it's the format to which you convert support splits or not. So, let's say, in our case, we see that we have a Bank2QBO converter and the QBO format does not support splits. What you're gonna do? If you have splits, where you're gonna put them? Let's say, you have a PayPal file and you have Gross, Fee, and Net column. So, you have two splits and the Amount. And, in this case, Net would be Amount and 'Split1' would be Gross, and 'Split2' would be a Fee. Some users are okay to have split separated into separate transactions. So, instead of creating a transaction with multiple splits, if the format you convert into does not allow splits, you could create separate transactions, and for your purposes, if it works for you, then it's fine. If it doesn't work for you, then you have to use different formats, that support splits. And, regardless, the converter will work in either case.

So, in this case, we have a CSV file, that has the Amount column, 'Split1', 'Split2', 'SplitCategory1', 'SplitCategory2'. If you don't have split category columns - the name of this split column will be used as a category name for all transactions. And if you do have a split category column, then the name provided for each transaction will be used, as a split category.

If you name splits, as in this example, which is 'Split1', 'Split2', 'Split3', and so on, for the Amounts, 'SplitCategory1', 'SplitCategory2', 'SplitCategory3' for the category columns - the converter will map this automatically. As you see, this is automapping, there is no mapping applied.

And splits are recognized. This is how splits look like, that is 'Office supplies: -11,00, Tax: -1,34', 'Utilities: -55,00, Fee: 5,00'.

If you don't have those Names, but you don't want to edit the split file, how would you do that?

You have to click 'Review Mapping'.

You have to set the number of splits here.

And you have to select a column, which is responsible for split amounts.

And split categories.

That's it, and then once you save the mapping, make sure to verify the splits column, that all splits are parsed correctly.