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Cleaning up payee list Laura 04-26-2006
Posted by Laura on April 26, 2006, 3:12 pm
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I'm using Quicken 2004 basic.

I spent most of the morning cleaning up the payee to category mapping. Is
there any way of editing/cleaning up the stored list to delete the invalid
ones? When I download transactions from the bank many transactions are
picking up the wrong (old) category. For example all checks come through as
"Bonus". I'd rather they don't get categorized so that I can see them easily.

Also, many are not getting categorized even though there are other
transactions with the same payee entry. It is not consistent. Is this a bug
or am I missing a setting?

thanks,
laura

Posted by John Pollard on April 26, 2006, 4:28 pm
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Laura wrote:
> I'm using Quicken 2004 basic.
>
> I spent most of the morning cleaning up the payee to category
> mapping.

> Is there any way of editing/cleaning up the stored list to
> delete the invalid ones?

It sounds like you want to modify the Memorized Payee List.

> When I download transactions from the bank
> many transactions are picking up the wrong (old) category. For
> example all checks come through as "Bonus". I'd rather they
> don't get
> categorized so that I can see them easily.

Do you have a Memorized Payee that has a category of Bonus. If
so, change the category to spaces, and lock the memorized payee.

> Also, many are not getting categorized even though there are
> other
> transactions with the same payee entry. It is not consistent.
> Is this
> a bug or am I missing a setting?

Again, I think of the Memorized Payee List.

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Posted by Laura on April 26, 2006, 4:54 pm
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John Pollard wrote:
> Laura wrote:
>> I'm using Quicken 2004 basic.
>>
>> I spent most of the morning cleaning up the payee to category
>> mapping.
>
>> Is there any way of editing/cleaning up the stored list to
>> delete the invalid ones?
>
> It sounds like you want to modify the Memorized Payee List.

I finally found it. It is the Memorized Transactions list that needs to be
cleaned up.

>> When I download transactions from the bank
>> many transactions are picking up the wrong (old) category. For
>> example all checks come through as "Bonus". I'd rather they
>> don't get
>> categorized so that I can see them easily.
>
> Do you have a Memorized Payee that has a category of Bonus. If
> so, change the category to spaces, and lock the memorized payee.
>

A lot of Payees have the category of Bonus right now when they should not. I
will delete/edit those so that the list is cleaner.

>> Also, many are not getting categorized even though there are
>> other
>> transactions with the same payee entry. It is not consistent.
>> Is this
>> a bug or am I missing a setting?
>
> Again, I think of the Memorized Payee List.

Will do. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.


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