Split transactions with different dates

Question

I have an FSA Spending account to keep track of how much money I have in my FSA account. Is there a way to have the split transaction be on a different date the the original transaction.

Here's an example. Everything starts from the Credit Card transaction which has these SPLIT amounts.

1) [Credit card] account purchase for the FSA items amount charged $10
  2) [FSA Spending] account transfer for the claim -$10
  3) [Checking] account deposit when FSA pays me back $10

This works fine except for the 3rd item since the FSA payback deposit to the checking account could take more than a week or two to receive from the FSA plan. I can't seem to figure out a way to do this in Quicken. And I really don't want to create various multiple transactions in the Credit Card, FSA Spending, and Checking accounts since these should all be tied together somehow.

splasher · Answer

There can only be one date associated with a transaction and if it involves transfers, all of the transfers will have the same date.I would split it into two transactions, one for the purchase on the credit card and the second would be a transfer from the FSA to Checking.It is what is really happening, since the CC transaction is date-wise independent of the FSA->Checking transfer.

jrich75 · Answer

One way is to create a pass-through account typically used for payments in transit.  The [Checking] deposit would change to [In-Transit], or something like that.  You would then need an additional transaction to move the deposit from that account to [Checking] when the payback occurs.  I do this all the time for accounts that insist on mailing withdrawals to the address of record which are then deposited elsewhere once I get them.