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November 6, 2018
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  • November 6, 2018
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When I'm sorting out my expenses, my category keeps changing with my vendors: 

Lets say I have AutoZone, that is typically Cost of Goods Sold, but we also buy items for our business and maintaining our equipment through AutoZone. But when I try to differentiate the expenses, ALL AutoZone turns to Shop Expenses, as opposed to SOME being Cost of Goods Sold and some being Shop Expenses... ?!!! Is there a way to have multiple Categories per Vendor?!  

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Regina_Lend_A_Hand_Accounting
Level 2
November 6, 2018

Within the bank feed it remembers the last expense account used for a vendor expense, which is why it keeps changing. You can set bank rules based on the dollar amount of the transactions (over/under) for this vendor, or based on the bank text, though if the bank text is the same for each type of expense for this vendor it will not differentiate for you. Otherwise, you may have to batch reclassify some of the expenses within this vendors transaction history.