Upon download, auto categorize all Amazon transactions to Amazon category

drdively

I searched for some help, but did not find this side of the issue. I used to try to categorize Amazon purchases according to various categories. Now, all I am interested in is how much I am spending at Amazon. Has anyone found a way to do this?

Jim_Harman

I have two Renaming Rules for Amazon:

The first is for general purchases and renames the downloaded Payee to "Amazon"

The second is for subscriptions and such and renames the downloaded payee to "Amazon Digital.

Then there are two corresponding entries in the Memorized Payee List. The one for Amazon sets the Category to the one I use most often for general purchases, which is Household. The entry for Amazon Digital sets the Category to the one I use for subscriptions.

There is nothing new about this. The new ability to make separate Memorized Payee entries for transactions with different amounts or charged to different accounts provides even more flexibility.

fjh

Can't you run an Easy Answer report?

drdively

I have never used that feature, thank you for pointing that out. My question relates to the automatic categorization of downloads in Quicken Classic for Windows. For instance, this AM there were 7 Amazon transactions, each different, but all in the Subscribe and Save order. So I have to categorize each one individually to the same "Amazon" category. So, that which individualizes each debit prevents automatically categorizing them.

splasher

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20492670#Comment_20492670

Is there nothing between the downloaded payee and memo fields that would identify it as an Amazon purchase?

If there is and it is okay for the Payee to be changed to a consistent Payee, use a Renaming Rule (Tools menu) to change the Payee to "Amazon" and then have a Memorized Payee (Tools menu) with Amazon as the payee and the Category as the Amazon category. In the Memorized Payee, the Memo field should be blank and it will be filled in with the downloaded memo field. Leave the amount field blank also and lock the Memorized Payee to prevent it from changing. Then a downloaded transaction that matches will be renamed and matched to the Memorized Payee and entered with your changed Payee and Category with the downloaded memo and amount.

drdively

The new feature giving opportunity to create memorize payee with option being simple "amazon" seems to be helping.

Jim_Harman

I have two Renaming Rules for Amazon:

The first is for general purchases and renames the downloaded Payee to "Amazon"

The second is for subscriptions and such and renames the downloaded payee to "Amazon Digital.

Then there are two corresponding entries in the Memorized Payee List. The one for Amazon sets the Category to the one I use most often for general purchases, which is Household. The entry for Amazon Digital sets the Category to the one I use for subscriptions.

There is nothing new about this. The new ability to make separate Memorized Payee entries for transactions with different amounts or charged to different accounts provides even more flexibility.