Option to allow always using long payee names instead of renaming to short names

BlindMelonhead
BlindMelonhead Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭
edited November 11 in Product Enhancements

The current automatic renaming of payees doesn't work. Even with the "Automatically apply Quicken's suggested name to payee" option disabled, and all renaming rules removed and the "Use my existing renaming rules" disabled, Quicken still insists on renaming the transactions. As the support tech explained to me, that is because the financial institution is providing a "short name" for the transaction and that's what Quicken is using for the payee name. Unfortunately, those names are basically useless in many situations. As an example, if I have 2 vendors, "John Q Public" and "John Jacob Astor" I'm seeing them both renamed to "John" so I have no way to easily tell which is which unless I engage in the tedious process of manually right clicking on each transaction and telling it to revert to the original name, which causes the the transaction list to jump and then having to search for the transaction in the list again. If it was only 1 or 2 transactions it wouldn't be a big deal, but I have to deal with hundreds of transactions a month and this is extremely frustrating. Clearly Quicken has the correct (long) name or there wouldn't be a Revert option. We need an option to only use the long payee names to make this usable. Previously (several months ago, possibly a year or more), Quicken always used the long names, this change to use the short names is not at all user friendly and should be either reverted or an option to force always using the long names should be provided.

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