Amazon Purchase Categorizations

mjeanfreau

I have Chase Visa Amazon which has poor descriptions of the purchase. Every month, we have to go to Amazon to categorize each purchase. I did notice that Chase Visa includes the order number for each purchase. Would it be possible for quicken to create a better integration to read that order number to provide more description in the transaction?

Jim_Harman

I voted for this, but for me it is not much trouble to leave the Amazon "Your Orders" tab open in my browser and review recent deliveries to see what category(s) to use.

Downloaded software has a Payee of "AMZN Digital" which makes it easy to separate out, and video rentals are "Prime Video." The Prime renewal downloads as "Amazon Prime."

Chris_QPW

I'm 99% sure there is already such a requested Idea. The real problem here is twofold. One is that from what I understand there isn't any API to do this, so implementing it would be "hack job", which will always breaking as Amazon changes anything. The second is people's failure to understand the difference between what a person writing a script to do something and a business. Quicken Inc can't just write a script to access something on another business's website without permission. I doubt Amazon is going to give Quicken that permission, at least not without some kind of contract.

Jim_Harman

please see this Idea post for a lot more on this topic

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7878865/import-amazon-order-reports-to-create-transaction-splits

Quicken Kristina

Hello @mjeanfreau,

Thank you for coming to the Community to share your Idea!

To clarify, when you say you're wanting a better integration to use the order number to get more useful information about the order, are you asking for Quicken to be able to access your actual Amazon account (not the credit card account, but Amazon.com) and pull in order information? If so, then there is an existing request for that functionality:

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7447104/connect-to-amazon-account-to-download-orders-assign-categories-to-individual-items-match-up-split

I look forward to your response!