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[Phil Frost <indigo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Problem:

I've just received a monthly statement from the bank, and I want to be 
sure I did not forget to add any entries, and that the bank did not make 
any wrong entries.

I'm a bit confused by the overloading of the term "reconcile" in the 
interface and the documentation. In some places, it seems to refer to 
matching payments to invoices -- that's not the kind of reconciliation 
I'm seeking.

I thought maybe Accounting -> Periodic Processing -> Reconciliation -> 
Manual Reconciliation was the place to look, but that always says "No 
journal items found". I have an asset account representing the checking 
account, and "allow reconciliation" is checked. There is a journal for 
that account, and when I register a payment for an invoice I select that 
journal for the payment method. An unposted journal entry is created 
crediting A/R and debiting the checking account, and I can manually post 
it (is this necessary?), but still the manual reconciliation says "no 
journal items found".

Is there something I'm missing, or am I looking in the wrong place?