nvm. you can click "Clear" and not match them to a bank transaction.

I would question the need for this

I have a bank account with 1 transaction a month. I created a journal entry to process. It's a pain to upload a bai2 file (the bank also doesn't support it) for one transaction. This was preventing me from doing the account reconciliation since that transaction was not marked cleared.

You should be able to do the reconciliation using the old "reconcile bank" function without the need for the match bank data page

that is deprecated so will have to use the match bank data page at some point. but yes correct.