[jsdwarf]

That's exactly my problem. Assigning the purchase of a new computer mouse to the "Expenses:ITEquipment" account? Easy if you purchased the mouse at your local computer store and used your debit card. Just define a text pattern to make any purchase from that store go to the ITEquipment account and run it against the csv from your checkings account.

Same purchase from amazon? Difficult, because you have two layers of indirection: checking account > credit card > amazon > it equipment.

Currently testing a new spreadsheet approach to deal with such scenarios, but not easy.

[ska]

Isnt' why splits exist though? I've never found that to be onerous, and I did run a small business on it for a while.

Then again I'd never trust rules to do everything right anyway, so I'm reviewing at least once to reconcile.

[dmohs]

You just need one more account. The card payment is just a transfer to an "Amazon Balance" account or something. Then the individual items are entries against that account.