Rename and quickfill rules (Q Mac)

Treville

Is there a way to disable the renaming and quick fill rules? The updates to these features have made them less useful for me. It would be great to be able to just turn them off.

John_in_NC

Not at this time, but the project manager has made it clear that he wishes to soon add the ability to disable it if you prefer.

Treville

Unfortunately, that hasn't been my experience. I'll watch closer but I've had to go through and clean out rules multiple times.

Treville

I pre-enter most of mine as well. Just did a few. Yes, I can turn off the box but I'm still presented with multiple options for a Payee even with no Renaming rules and 1 Quickfill rule for that specific payee (no sub items). Just makes entry a little more laggy even on a late model computer.

MaconTime

I agree. I want to pay my water bill and notice after I save it, it autofilled with Macon Water Products. My water company is Macon Water Authority. So I type in the correct name for Macon Water Authority and now it wants to rename all similar transactions Macon Water Authority. It causes me more work to correct the Autofill and then try and get rid of the renaming rule than if there was no Autofill and Renaming Rule at all. If I want a rule, I'll create it. Quicken doesn't have to do that for me.

John_in_NC

In the current version (5.16.1 as of this writing), there is now an option under Preferences:Register that allows one to disable the creation of new rules:

That said, I suggest you give the new rules a try. Sure, it initially appears confusing/complicated/more work, but it really isn't when you see how the program behaves.

You don't have to be babysitting a bunch of rules (my initial thought) when you figure out what is going on. It does save time-especially with manual transaction entry which is what I normally do.

The developers have fine tuned/tweaked this a lot since it was first rolled out a few months ago.