Have QuickFill category rules use "Starts With" instead of just "Exact Match"

keenethery

Problem: No category assigned to downloaded transactions containing dates in the Payee line. Every downloaded transaction from the same payee has a different payee text as far as Quicken is concerned. Have to manually add every category.

Solution: Instead of using "Exact Match" (since that is never going to be true when dates are added into the payee line) use "Starts With" because the payee company name in the beginning of the dowloaded transaction payee is consistent.

Chris_QPW

Doesn't Quicken Mac have something like "Contains" in the renaming rules so that you can normalize the payee's name so that it will match the QuickFill rule?

jacobs

@keenethery There are two parts to doing what you want, as @Chris_QPW alluded to. The first thin you need to do is create a Renaming Rule. These rules are to standardize the variable names of downloaded payees to a single name: e.g. "Home Depot #1234 Anytown" and "Home Depot #9876 Othertown" should both have the payee renamed to "Home Depot". Renaming Rules have what you were asking for here: "contains" matches. So in my example, I'd create a renaming rule like this:

Now that you know all the transactions will have the sane-name payee, you can create a QuickFill Rule to categorize that payee's transactions. There aren't wildcards or "contains" searches for QuickFill Rules, because they are uniquely assigned to a Payee in the database.

So Quicken Mac does already do what you're asking for, just in two steps: (1) a Renaming Rule to standardize the downloaded payee names, and (2) a QuickFill Rule for the payee to categorize transactions.