Quicken "unfixing" my corrected download category errors. QM 2019 5.11.0

RCinNJ

I believe this is new or much worse since the last update: A downloaded transaction is incorrectly (sometimes bizarrely) categorized based on some part of the name. I will correct it and then the next time I download transactions QM will delete my correction and redownload it with the same error. It overwrites everything I enter including deleting my Memo/Notes. IMHO this is even worse than the well documented failure to remember categories on repeated downloads.

Are other's experiencing this? Is there anything to do but wait for a fix??

lhossus

I have no ideas on the core issue of mis-categorization. I don't experience the  problem.

Suggestions to deal with the issue until Quicken developers can put in a fix:

1. To fix a mis-categorization: a) manually enter the transaction and b) merge this manual transaction with the downloaded transaction by the drag and drop method.
2. Enter all transactions manually before downloading. This is how I have always used Quicken. The downloaded transactions auto-match the manual transactions.
3. Create scheduled repeating transactions where possible, to reduce manual transaction entry.

My setup of Quicken, in Preferences:

Connected Services > Downloaded Transactions, the option Automatically improve the quality of downloaded payee names and categories is Unchecked (off).

Mobile, Web & Alerts > Sync > OFF

lhossus

I have no ideas on the core issue of mis-categorization. I don't experience the  problem.

Suggestions to deal with the issue until Quicken developers can put in a fix:

1. To fix a mis-categorization: a) manually enter the transaction and b) merge this manual transaction with the downloaded transaction by the drag and drop method.
2. Enter all transactions manually before downloading. This is how I have always used Quicken. The downloaded transactions auto-match the manual transactions.
3. Create scheduled repeating transactions where possible, to reduce manual transaction entry.

My setup of Quicken, in Preferences:

Connected Services > Downloaded Transactions, the option Automatically improve the quality of downloaded payee names and categories is Unchecked (off).

Mobile, Web & Alerts > Sync > OFF

RCinNJ

Ihossum thanks for your reply. I already do #'s 1 and 3. Manually entering every credit card transaction before I download on the chance it will be misinterpreted by Quicken is too much for me and counter to why I use a program like Quicken.

As you suggest, I just unchecked "Automatically improve the quality of downloaded payee names and categories." I'll be interested to see what is gained (or lost) from doing this. Frankly, I've never been clear on what QM is supposed to do with "on", but who wouldn't want, in theory, to improve downloads?