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[GH-ISSUE #6519] [Feature] Rules for Payee missing "contains" option #80190
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Originally created by @jflee0315 on GitHub (Jan 1, 2026).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/6519
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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?
When creating rules, I run into issues with getting very similar payees with varying notes. Is there any reason why "contains" isn't supported with payees when creating a rule?
Describe your ideal solution to this problem
When creating rules, just like when "notes" is selected, we can add a "contains" option in addition to the existing "is" and "one of".
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Since we already have this on "notes", I imagine it feels natural to our users already.
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@jfdoming commented on GitHub (Jan 1, 2026):
Hi! You can do this using "imported payee"
@db-src commented on GitHub (Jan 1, 2026):
Otherwise, likely dupe of https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/679
@jeffrey-lee-backend commented on GitHub (Jan 1, 2026):
Thank you! Is there a document about imported payee vs payee? I can't find one and thought it was payee imported via file.
@jfdoming commented on GitHub (Jan 1, 2026):
Don't have a link atm but "imported payee" is set when importing via file or by bank sync. The assumption is you would use auto complete for manual entry so you wouldn't end up with many different payees doing manual entry.
@denes44 commented on GitHub (Feb 14, 2026):
Imported payee is not going to work every time, because some bank imports are extremely messed up...
For example my bank sends accented characters like this:
á -> a'
ú -> u'
So first, I want to clean up the payee from these characters, and then make other processing, like cutting the string "000" for the end, so I will end up with the correct payees, without the need of create a rule for each of them.