How do I correctly connect my Fidelity cash management account to not be treated as investment?

My primary checking account is Fidelities cash management account.

Simplifi treats this as an investment account, which means that I have to edit every ACH to both 1) have a category and 2) not be considered investment. Because the default transactions are all auto hidden/ignored.

I keep missing spending because I have to manually convert every transaction from this. Additionally most are duplicated making it even more difficult.

The account is configured as a checking account in the accounts overview. However all transactions show up as investment transaction in spite of this.

This is tedious, especially because the only way to fix these transactions is via mobile (I cannot save them on desktop; they instantly revert. I have to change the “type” to payment/deposit for each ach transaction which is only available on the iOS app).

Does anyone else have a Fidelity CMA setup with Simplifi in a way this doesn't happen? What did you do to set it up so it is treated as a checking account?

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  • Coach Natalie
    Coach Natalie Administrator, Moderator admin

    @ender, thanks for reaching out to the Community!

    I'm sorry you're experiencing this issue with your Fidelity CMA account in Quicken Simplifi. When viewing the account from our end, I see that it's connected via the Finicity aggregator, so you are likely experiencing this known issue:

    Since it looks like you're also enabled for our Intuit aggregator, you can try switching to the Intuit option of "Fidelity Inv & Retirement" to see if you get better results. If this is something you want to try, you may do so by following these steps:

    1. Make the account manual by following the steps here.
    2. Once you see the account(s) listed in the Manual Accounts section under Settings > Accounts, go back through the Add Account flow to connect to "Fidelity Inv & Retirement".
    3. Carefully link the account found to your existing Quicken Simplifi account by following the steps here.

    However, if the Intuit option for Fidelity doesn't do the trick or has other issues, we would recommend switching back to the Finicity option. You would then want to follow the Alert I linked above for updates on the known issue.

    I hope this helps!

    -Coach Natalie

  • ender
    ender Member

    Hmmm it seems like that might have worked - I'm able to edit the transactions now for that. I will see if that works - I had to switch off of the other Fidelity one because the credit card was showing improper balances.

    Maybe having one on each will work?