Can I split just part of a payment into an expense?

Hello TedM1, 

Welcome to the Community page, 

So if you have not created the transaction you can use the split option on the banking page and then split it out, the rule you can add a split on the category as well. 

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

But in the rule if I create a split and take 20% of a transaction total as a business expense it looks like I need to assign the remaining 80% as a business expense also as that is all that's in the dropdown list of categories.

I just want to assign 20% of the transaction to a business expense and exclude/leave the rest as it's personal.

Is this possible in QB online?

Hi TedM1, 

Welcome to the Community page, 

So you will have to split the transaction and use the rule to allocate it, but you will have to create a category in the chart of accounts to post personal spending that's the only way as using the split option on the banking page means you can post the allocation of money to each account.