why does the budget default to one payee?

doverjohnson

my budget will default to one particular payee in different categories. For example, it will use one payee as the history for several different types of payees. Any idea as to why one payee seems to the linked to the account of many other payees?

UKR

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doverjohnson

Thank you for your suggestions. In researching each occurrence, I discovered that the default only occurs in the "Everything Else" category. It is also tied to the reminder function. I deleted the reminder and then it disappeared from every "Everything Else". Thanks.

UKR

Without seeing what exactly you have or had defined, I'm still somewhat in the dark as to what you're referring to.

Based on what you told me, you created a Scheduled Reminder which was associated with a category or subcategory. This category is not explicitly defined in your Budget. Therefore it appears in a catch-all-category, "Everything else". Read more about budgets and "Everything else" here: https://help.quicken.com/display/WIN/Work+with+a+budget

In the budget, when option "Include Reminders" is enabled, the impact of reminder instances on future months will show in the Actual columns as if the reminder had already executed.