Rules have no option for STARTS WITH

It's a pleasure to hear from you that you love QuickBooks, @richardbushell.

Adding Starts with option in QuickBooks Online is a good idea. And I can see the benefits of having this option as an additional function under bank rules.

Bank rules work best when you have the same types of transactions from the same customer or vendor. Each time QuickBooks uses rules, it puts those transactions in the Recognized section of the For Review tab. This way, you can still review them before clicking the Add option to avoid mismatch.

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Thanks, it's included with Xero and others, and we used Regular Expressions to match the START of an entry when we were using a spreadsheet for our bank transaction imports. It's the best and most reliable way of matching most entries, so forwarding the recommendation for inclusion asap in QB would be hugely appreciated.