Use rules to auto-group transactions
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Jen from Lunch Money
Use case #1: auto-group credit card payment and transfer transactions (match on the same amount)
Use case #2: auto-group credits + debits from the same merchant to denote refunds
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Maxim Hansen
I'm not sure about the "auto" part, and what is exactly meant by that in this context. Like, I don't need Lunch Money to try and automatically detect anything for me.
I just want to be able to select "Group Transactions" as an action for a Rule, same as we have Split Transaction, set category, etc.
To solve for the "Which of these 20 transactions that we've found throughout your history do you want to actually group?", the action should have a "Group timespan" field (or "Group bucket range", or something), which says that a group will be created for all transaction that fall between [1st] and [20th] (just as an example) of every month.
Then maybe have some pre-defined choices as well. Like, group all transactions that match the rule criteria, that were created within the same [Month] / [Week] / [Day].
So, basically, the action fields would look something like the below for this action type:
- Action: Group Transactions
- Set group: [Category], [Tags], [Payee], [Account], etc.
- Group matching transactions within the same: [Month], [Week], [Day], [Custom,<range between two days of month, typically to account for cases with user defined budget periods>]
I think that will cover most of the cases for grouping transactions. And then today's rule engine for actually finding the transactions you want to group can be used. "Just" add grouping as an action we can define. 😊
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Amber Nicole
Will this also work for internal transfers as well? Like between my bank accounts or between different spaces within the same bank account? (Wise for example).
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Amber Nicole
Any updates?! :)
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CoolJoeLiam
Still sounds like a great feature… 4 years later! (sigh)

Jen from Lunch Money
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Jennings
This would be so useful!
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Jair Sian
Is there an ETA on this feature? I'm reluctant to move over from YNAB until it's available but v eager to!

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Jen from Lunch Money
Merged in a post:
Auto link/group transfers/payments
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Matt Wean
It would be great to automatically link or group a bank withdrawal with credit card payment or transfer from one account to another.
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