Add the ability to hide *ANY* account

RobWilk

Hiding closed accounts, which is now there, is terrific. It gives me what I need right now.

However, some people have requested the ability to hide -any- account, so I created this idea post to collect votes. I think this might be under Settings→Accounts, and there would be a menu setting on each account to hide an account (maybe checked/unchecked). For hidden accounts, I might like the option to pull up the account registers from settings→accounts.

spyderdan

Agreed. I would also like the ability to hide certain open accounts that I want to keep in the system, but don't wish to see them cluttering up my sidebar.

I have various store cards (Home Depot, Best Buy, etc) that I keep open just in case I want to take advantage of promotions they run for card holders at times, but generally speaking these account are basically unused. I can unhide them if they come back into use and that would be fine.

I would also be ok with the option to simply "Hide accounts with zero balance" to achieve my same goal

Flynn1982

100% - Upvoted…

Philk

I agree that hiding certain accounts would be helpful to give focus to those that are most used and important. I submitted feedback to create a favorites group, which could highlight at the top of the list the accounts of most importance.

If you are familiar with Microsoft Outlook, they use a favorite at the top, see attached. I have multiple email accounts and want to see the inbox at the top for each so I don't have to scroll through all the clutter of folders etc.

Same problem exist in Simplifi …accounts grouped by type, mixed with accounts that are seldom used but want to monitor or otherwise keep.

I hope my example here resonates with the intention of those who want hide accounts…but maybe highlighting important accounts is another way tackling the problem, by pushing them down, but not out.

Think of the folders as accounts in this example:

y11

I understand there's already suggestion to sort accounts in account list by balance (please do it as well), but what Mint Extension back in days also helped was hide zero balance credit cards. This helps users with multiple credit cards (I have 20+ between myself and spouse) that are not actively used, but want to keep eye on it — just in case fee gets charged or fraud activity.

https://fixingmint.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/hide-credit-card-accounts-with-zero-balances/

ajbopp

I like this idea!

RobWilk

Got my vote. This might be helpful.

Coach Natalie

Hey everyone!

To be clear, are you all looking for the ability to automatically hide credit cards with a $0 balance from the Accounts List? Otherwise, I'd suggest merging this request with the existing request for the ability to hide any account from the Accounts List, as this will give you full control over which accounts to hide:

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Please let me know, thanks!

-Coach Natalie

RobWilk

In retrospect, I thought most of my credit cards are usually at $0 (I don't carry balances generally) - and to make things worse, I usually manually enter transactions ahead of them downloading (which would be difficult if it was hidden automatically at $0). I'm retracting my vote.

y11

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/20768#Comment_20768

Yes would like to see option to display credit cards with balance only.

Philk

I'm struggling to fully support hiding any accounts, but if this was the only alternative it's better than nothing.

Currently grouping accounts by account type makes a mess, or otherwise complicates focusing on accounts that matter the most.

Institution Logo Icon next to account name could be helpful…using an emoji sure has helped to bring focus.

I posted a suggestion about a custom Group (favorites) where users could select which accounts in which order they'd like to view from the top down. Another way this could be accomplished is having an option for removing account groups and some way of arranging them, such as an inactive group and or a favorite group.

Any transaction coming in should be detected in the transaction list, essentially the first line of defense for surprise charges for any account.

I support moving accounts with a zero balance to an Inactive Group and have the option of stashing other account there as well to bring focus to accounts of most importance.

RobWilk

@Philk It sounds like you're looking to support (in part) this idea post (if you didn't see it):

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/453/let-me-categorize-and-organize-my-accounts-list-however-i-like-edited-10-merged-votes

I'm also a fan of having it remember the expanded/collapsed state of each group:

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/3083/remember-expanded-collapsed-state-of-accounts-list-other-elements-edited

Philk

Thank @RobWilk . I will go support remembering state of list. Any option simplifi can give us to see and sort our data, such as an option ungroup…collapese some, but not others…then leave it as it is set…is a great idea!

JWV

This is a must!

esender

I'd like the ability to hide the amount in my cash transactions

y11

I have found workaround that may work for some use case.

Number your accounts so they get sorted in accounts list and map your mental region to it. For example, my mostly used cards have 1 prefix so they stay top and is on my watchlist. This usually is most recent credit card I opened and need to meet certain spending threshold to receive sign up bonus. My unused ( yet want to keep for whatever reason) gets prefix 9 and they stay bottom of list which I can ignore with all zero balances. If balance pop up on those "9" accounts section, I can easily spot and take whatever action needed.

Anything in between gets corresponding priority number. This works well for me with about 30 credit card accounts

kerrigjl

Agreed; would like to hide accounts from net worth calculations (i.e. retirement accounts that I won't touch until retirement) but have the data in the background being tracked. Or even liquid net worth (assets minus liabilities) versus illiquid net worth (including retirement, house minus mortgage, etc).

lexicalscope

Upvoted! Is the current workaround just to delete the account?

In my case, there are a few bank checking accounts that I do not want to show up in any transaction list. From what I can tell, my only option is to delete the account?

RobWilk

@lexicalscope You can close an account without deleting it (you'd keep the transaction history), but I do not believe you can reopen a closed account.

michfromflorida

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/22545#Comment_22545

Love this. Thank you for the suggestion. I'd like to be able to hide accounts with zero balances too but this solution is easy to implement. In fact, I've already started calling the zero balance cards our '9' cards.

Travis H

Piling on -please add this feature. Right now, the only way to "hide" an account is to "close" the account. That is way overloading the close functionality. Please add this feature

Dillon

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the ability to hide closed accounts that everyone is mentioning. I'm thinking maybe you can hide a closed financial institution rather than account? I don't have any closed financial institutions, so I can't verify this assumption. But I am not seeing any way to hide a closed account.

For example, I have an active retirement account with Empower. I also have a couple old accounts with them that had been rolled over into the new active account from previous employers. I marked the accounts themselves as closed in Simplifi, but I see no way to hide them from the accounts list. They just show with "(closed)" behind their name.

UrsulaA

@Dillon

Try the following steps to hide a closed account

https://help.simplifimoney.com/en/articles/8392725-how-to-hide-closed-accounts-and-savings-goals-from-the-accounts-list

Mobile app

https://help.simplifimoney.com/en/articles/8392747-how-to-hide-closed-accounts-and-savings-goals-from-the-accounts-list-on-the-mobile-app

Dillon

@UrsulaA Perfect! I didn't even think to look there I was looking in the account settings. Thanks so much for your help.

iMan

I would like to hide credit cards with 0 balance. This wil make it easirer to track which credit cards require attention. it would also be helpful to have the option to sort credit cards by balance.

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UrsulaA

Here is a similar request open, which will fulfill your needs. With more votes, the chances for consideration improve.

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/6051/add-the-ability-to-hide-any-account

[Merged Post]

TX_Hefe

MAKE HIDING ANY ACCOUNT(S) AN OPTION!

neon45

My credit card was stolen and used fraudulently. The credit card company issued me a new account number and I don't want to lose the history of the old card.

After reading the previous posts it seems the "closing" and then hiding the account will preserve the cards history for later retrieval. Is that a true statement?

I read the following link but I'm still hesitant about closing anything : https://help.simplifimoney.com/en/articles/8392725-how-to-hide-closed-accounts-and-savings-goals-from-the-accounts-list

Thanks…

Coach Jon

Hello @neon45,

Thanks for reaching out! This article explains that you will keep all of your historical data when closing the account: https://help.simplifimoney.com/en/articles/5149428-marking-accounts-as-closed

Additionally, instead of closing the account you may reset the account connection and then link the new card to the existing account, and the instructions to do that can be found here: https://help.simplifimoney.com/en/articles/4295304-adding-accounts-in-quicken-simplifi#h_0335e5a234

I hope this information helps!

-Coach Jon

whoisbwood

Is this being worked on? Several very low balance accounts that I would prefer to hide from view.