How to prevent my cc charges showing up as General Journal type transactions?

[talyiana]

Hi all,

When intially setting up my credit card account in QuickBooks I had by mistake set it up as a liability instead of a credit card. I did this because I was having trouble connecting it to my online account and set it up this way according to some recommendations I had found somewhere on the net.
The other day I decided I really wanted it set up as a credit card and not a liability so I changed the account to a 'credit card' instead of liability and managed to connect successfully after all, so thought all was well. I then noticed that all of my earlier charges are showing up as "General Journal" type transactions instead of CC (credit card) type transactions. How can I change these to CC type transactions? And how can I prevent future transactions from showing up as General Journal type transactions? If I eneter the charges directly into the Credit Card register for a vendor I have used previously, then it shows up as a GJ type transaction, whereas if I enter the charge via the "Enter Credit Card Charges" icon, it shows up correctly as a credit charge type.
Please can you advise me as to how I can sort out this little mess?


Thank you very much,

Christine

[talyiana]

Okay.... I suppose I am going to have to delete and re-enter all the transactions the proper way bah humbug>;B Groan moan. That will teach me to do things right from the start the next time around...

[LauraD]

You should be fine. . .leave the history as journal entries - it is not a problem.

Reconcile your credit card statement in QuickBooks, using Banking>Reconcile.

Then, when you download again, it should come in properly.

I hope this helps,

Laura D