Two-letter words appear to be ignored in rules
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
usmobilethen rename as "US Mobile". - Bug: transaction "something mobile ticketing" (with
usappearing nowhere in the name) was renamed "US Mobile".
Example 2
- Rule: if original statement name contains
mythaithen rename as "My Thai". - Bug: transaction "paradise thai" (with
myappearing nowhere in the name) was renamed "My Thai".
Comments
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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!
-Coach Kristina
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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.
DryHeat
-Quicken Classic (1990-2020), CountAbout (2021-2024), Simplifi (2025-…)2 -
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:
I hope this helps!
-Coach Jon
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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.
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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.
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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.
Steve
Quicken Simplifi (Safari & iOS) Since 2021
Quicken Classic (MacOS) Since 2009
MS Money (1991-2009) and Dollars & Sense (1987-1991)1
