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Two-letter words appear to be ignored in rules

khad

This happened recently, and I brushed it off. But then it happened again, and it seems that Simplifi is consistently ignoring two-letter words when they are part of a rule.

Example 1

Rule: if original statement name contains us mobile then rename as "US Mobile".
Bug: transaction "something mobile ticketing" (with us appearing nowhere in the name) was renamed "US Mobile".

Example 2

Rule: if original statement name contains my thai then rename as "My Thai".
Bug: transaction "paradise thai" (with my appearing nowhere in the name) was renamed "My Thai".

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Coach Kristina

Hello @khad,

Thank you for letting us know you're seeing this issue. When I tested in my Quicken Simplifi, I saw the same thing. When putting in "no" and "available" as the words to contain, it seems to ignore the word "no".

Experimenting further, I noticed that if you try to set the criteria to just a 2 letter word, with no other words, it won't let you.

This issue has been forwarded to the proper channels for further investigation and resolution.

Thank you!

DryHeat

@khad

A similar issue (where certain common words are treated as "noise words" and ignored by the matching system) was discussed back in March (see below). I am not sure it was ever forwarded to the proper channels, but if it was nothing was ever done about it.

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/49119#Comment_49119

Coach Jon

Hello @khad,

There is currently a restriction where there are currently 3 characters required in order to create a transaction rule in Quicken Simplifi. This would be why the 2 character words are being ignored. We do have an idea post available to vote for, requesting that this restriction is removed, here:

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/7163/remove-restrictions-when-creating-payee-rules-such-as-the-3-character-limit-edited

I hope this helps!

-Coach Jon

khad

Hm. The problem is that it appears to be a regression. I am seeing transactions renamed incorrectly now because of this bug when they were not previously, so it seems that there hasn't always been a three-character requirement. And I'm not sure why there would be such a requirement per word. I understand not allowing a rule with two characters, but the rule has many more characters than two. It just happens that one of the words in the entire multi-character, multi-word rule is two characters.

khad

I should also mention that this problem is exacerbated living in Los Angeles. Many businesses use "LA" as a prefix (or the Spanish articles "la", "el", "lo", "un"), which can be distinguishing elements of their business names when transactions come in.

SRC54

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/58457#Comment_58457

Even in Tuscaloosa, we have La Quinta, El Mercado, La Carnicería Mexicana, Mi Pueblo, etc. I have noticed vaguely that Simplifi has become less reliable in matching payees lately. I normally enter my transactions since I have so many manual accounts and even connected ones that don't download pending transactions.

Simplifi often stumbles over Walmart although it never used to. I have redone the rule a few times. It is sometimes wal-mart or wal mart or even walmart, but often ends up not recognized.