Order of Savings Goals "By goal" seems to shift randomly

DryHeat

Is it possible to have the Savings Goals displayed in some fixed order, preferably alphabetical? Or at least to have them stay in whatever order they are in and not move around?

Here's why I want this…

I usually contribute to my savings goals on the first of the month, using the Goals | Savings Goals | By goal display. They appear in a seemingly random order. When I contribute to a goal (making it the most recently edited one), sometimes it moves into first place in the listing but sometimes it doesn't. Either way, the goals usually change order when I finish the contribution, moving around to different locations on the screen.

When I am contributing to a number of goals at the same time — like on the first of the month — this makes it difficult to make sure I am hitting all of them. The tile for each shows how much has been saved, but doesn't show if a contribution was made this month. The "on track!" symbol doesn't seem to correlate with whether I have contributed this month. So I end up opening some of them multiple times and all of them at the end just to check that there was a contribution for each.

Coach Jon

Hello @DryHeat,

Thanks for reaching out! I do not believe that Savings Goals have any set order currently within Quicken Simplifi, but we do have an awesome idea post you can vote for and follow for updates that would allow users to rearrange and sort the order of their Savings Goals here:

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/1531/ability-to-rearrange-or-sort-savings-goals-edited

I hope this helps!

-Coach Jon

DryHeat

@Coach Jon I already voted for that post some time ago, but I replicated my comment there as an additional reason for implementing the "rearrange or sort" request. Maybe that will help.

I actually opened this as a Question (with an eye toward making it into a Bug Report) because it seemed to me that having the Savings Goals shift around randomly on the page as you work on them was probably not the intended behavior. (Note that this shifting problem is slightly different from "having no fixed order.")

But if this is the expected behavior I guess there's no point in reporting it as a bug. Implementing the "rearrange or sort" capability would solve it anyway.