Preventing automatic category assignment

Charles T Cullen

In preferences, I have not selected 'automatically categorize transactions" that are downloaded, yet Quicken chooses to do it anyway, selecting a category from those previously used with a payee. How can I make it stop doing this?

Quicken Jared

Charles T Cullen said:

In preferences, I have not selected 'automatically categorize transactions" that are downloaded, yet Quicken chooses to do it anyway, selecting a category from those previously used with a payee. How can I make it stop doing this?

Hello @Charles T Cullen,  

We are sorry about this problem with categories being assigned automatically. Thanks for inquiring about this here on the Quicken Community. 

In order to assist you further we will need some additional information. First, what financial institution is associated with the affected account(s)? Is more than one account exhibiting these symptoms? Also, are you entering transactions manually before a One Step Update, or before transactions are downloaded and imported? 

I look forward to your response, and I hope to provide more assistance, if necessary. 

Thank you,

Quicken Jared 

Chris_QPW

Note that no matter if "automatically categorize transactions" is set or not, if you have match memorized payees, they will be used to categorize your downloaded transactions.

EDIT: Note in the memorized payee list there is a check box for every memorized payee that says not to automatically categorize using that payee.