Because it appears this may be a bug known to Quickbooks, I checked again to see if they might have tried to fix it. They may have tried, but if so, they just made the problem worse.

When I posted this originally, Quickbooks' Match Transactions function was searching for received payment transactions using the wrong client/project pair. So of course it didn't find the right transactions. It's still doing that.

But now that same incorrect search returns an even more incorrect result. It's wrong in two different ways. The search result returns transactions for completely different clients! But that's not all it's now doing wrong. What are the transactions to which it's trying to match the imported banking deposits? Get this -- wait for it -- two unpaid invoices!

It's searching for the wrong type of transaction, for the wrong clients. Whatever you're doing, Quickbooks, you're now breaking it more.

Now maybe in my dreams I wish I could magically turn unpaid invoices into bank deposits. But that's not what we need of our accounting systems.

We're now at month's end. I need to close my books somehow.

Anyone have a workaround jury-rig? Being cash basis, I don't tend to deal with the accrual-basis accounts, so I'm going to have to dive in on how to do a journal entry to reconcile the accounts receivable QBO uses to manage my invoice payments with my bank account.