Paycheck split - two line items to same account get combined into 1 transaction in register

rnoia

I've got a curious transaction problem with my paycheck/splits. My company does a partial match on our employee stock purchase program. So for my paycheck split I do:

After tax deduction: description "ESPP match" to ESPP account, for say, "$1"

then right after that another transaction for 'ESPP purchase' to the same ESPP account for "$2.5", to account for the ones I paid for, vs the ones the company gives me.

However, when I go look in the register for the ESPP account, the description is "ESPP match" and the amount is $3.5 (combined of the two transactions).

Is this normal? Why is quicken aggregating two line items of a split into 1 transaction in the destination account? This is confusing, and makes it difficult to trace errors.

My expectation is that there would be two transactions in the destination (ESPP) account, matching the exact split line item.