Transacations that are NOT Transfers

Question

I have transacations coming in (I think only from USAA) that are shown in the Quicken " "Num" column as TXFR.  When I go to Categorize the transaction I can only select other accounts in Quicken since Quicken thinks the transaction is a Transfer... makes sense but is terribly wrong.  How do I stop Quicken from Auto-deeming a transaction a transfer?

Gr8gory · Answer

Yep, that timing is about right - it started happening with the new USAA imports. The easy fix for now that I forgot about… just do a category “split” when entering the transaction and you can select appropriate category (even just a single entry).

Chris_QPW · Answer

No, it doesn't and that is the only saving grace.  In my USAA account the main thing that was going there was my wife's paycheck, and of course I had a paycheck reminder going in first, and when that is matched it overrides the XFER information that USAA sends.

I'm stating that all in the past since I'm closing my USAA accounts.

Jim_Harman · Answer

Thanks for the background, @Chris_QPW

So it sounds like until USAA chooses to fix this, you will have to delete the "XFER" before Quicken will let you pick the correct Category.

Does the XFER get populated even if a matching transaction is already in the register, as from a Reminder, or if there is a Memorized Payee that matches the downloaded Payee?