confusing CC balances

sujack

one CC account adds charges to balance; other CC deducts charges from balance - why. This is a new problem - never happened before.

sujack

When Quicken helped me yesterday by making a copy of my file due to a connection issue between QW and my bank, the accounts opened with the wrong balance and that threw everything off. One account is fixed, still working on the others; however now all of my accounts are not downloading and appears everything is in place for continued downloads, so issues still exist. Thank you everyone for your comments and guidance.

sujack

I want charges to increase balance and payments to decrease balance in all my accounts.

Sherlock

If you haven’t already, you may want to verify the register is sorted appropriately and there aren’t any unexpected filters being applied:  open the register, select the Date column header (you want the small triangle to right of Date to point up) and Reset.

Charges should always subtract from the running balance.  
Payments should always add to the running balance.

When the running balance is in the black (positive), charges will appear to reduce the balance and payments will appear to increase the balance.

When the running balance is in the red (negative), charges will appear to increase the balance and payments appear to reduce the balance.

sujack

Hi Sherlock, I did read this prior to my question. It did not solve the issue. One acct still does charges to increase what I owe and the one in question still reduces the amount I owe. So I do not understand the response. There is still a conflict.

UKR

sujack said:

Hi Sherlock, I did read this prior to my question. It did not solve the issue. One acct still does charges to increase what I owe and the one in question still reduces the amount I owe. So I do not understand the response. There is still a conflict.

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volvogirl

Also make sure you have the right starting balance.  If it's zero you might need to add a beginning balance for when you started the account in Quicken.

 The credit card balance you OWE should be in RED. If the balance is Black then it's showing the credit card company owes you and you have a credit balance. And then when you make a payment it's like the cc owes you more. So you need to go back though your entries and find where the balance switched to black to being in your favor.

See this for more info.....

https://www.quicken.com/support/positive-black-balance-credit-card-account

sujack

When Quicken helped me yesterday by making a copy of my file due to a connection issue between QW and my bank, the accounts opened with the wrong balance and that threw everything off. One account is fixed, still working on the others; however now all of my accounts are not downloading and appears everything is in place for continued downloads, so issues still exist. Thank you everyone for your comments and guidance.