Journal Entry Fields for Import

[Cody Lerum]

I'm working on building an import file for journal entries of daily payouts from stripe.

These generally involve 3-4 lines and I'm wondering about what the best way to set them up for identification down the line.

Stripe provides a unique id of their payout for example: po_1OaFDbEcg9tTZuTgNYmX0PKB

I'm wondering what the prefered way of tagging these entries would be.

 

1. Description on the Journal like "Stripe Payout: po_1OaFDbEcg9tTZuTgNYmX0PKB"

2. Document field on the entry like "po_1OaFDbEcg9tTZuTgNYmX0PKB"

3. Memo on the entry 

 

I'm unclear about what the pros and cons of each would be and any guidance would be appreciated.

[Sterio, Louis]

I would create a custom field on the journal entry header to house this information instead of repurposing a standard field.