Add custom pending transactions via API
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Daniel Prilik
I'm working on a little project to sync splitwise transactions to lunch money (https://github.com/daniel5151/splitwise-lunchmoney), and it'd be cool to have a credit-card style "pending/posted period" for API-imported transactions, similar to what plaid-imported transactions have.
i.e: transactions could be set to appear "pending" for a few days (e.g: while friends make quick edits), and then transition into a "posted" state.
My tool is totally workable without this feature... but form a UX perspective - it'd be a great way to visually indicate that the transaction is still "in flux"
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JP Shipherd
Thanks for submitting this, Daniel. Currently, only transactions associated with Plaid-synced accounts can be pending, and Lunch Money has infrastructure in place to ensure these transactions eventually exit pending status.
If we opened it up to non-plaid transactions, I think we would need to rely on the 3rd party apps that created the original pending transactions to "clean them up", either by changing them out of pending status or deleting them if they never actually materialize. If those apps don't behave well or the connection breaks, transactions could remain pending indefinitely.
I'm curious if users would be OK with that. Perhaps if we get a few more votes on this feature request, we can find out.