confusion over bank transfer to credit card

Question

I was looking at the Spending report and noticed that I had a -$19,000 for bills and utilities for the year.  I was wondering why that -$19k showed there so I click on the detail and there are monthly transactions that all have payee of "Principal Interest Fees" and category is Bills & Utilities: credit card payment.  These transactions are on the credit card side.

On the bank side I see payee of "withdrawal my name here ck" and a category of [bank acct].  Bank account refers to that checking account.   Oddly, July shows the same, except category shows [credit card].

I setup a transfer from checking to pay the credit card in full a day or so before it's due every month.

1) How do I stop this from happening?

2) Do I fix on the bank side?  If I edit existing transaction, will it create a new transaction on the credit card side and do I have to delete the old (duplicated) one on the cc side?

Scott11 · Answer

I went for it and made a backup.  I changed the bank transaction to a transfer and after selecting the transfer to credit card it said something that it's the same account am I sure?  I said yes and then it asked if the transaction matched the one in the credit card and I said yes again.  It didn't seem to duplicate either one...  The spending report looks better now.