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[GH-ISSUE #4684] [Bug]: Incorrect payee on scheduled transactions #8922
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Originally created by @newtoat on GitHub (Mar 24, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/4684
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What happened?
For the past few months I've seen an issue where scheduled transactions map to the wrong payee. I think it started this year (i.e. 2025.1 onwards) but as my Schedules are monthly I didn't notice it straight away, and I don't think an update introduced the issue, I think I've just mangled the data somehow.
When looking at a Schedule, it shows the correct Payee / Account for the scheduled transaction.
When looking at the transactions list, the upcoming transactions show the schedule with the wrong Payee / Account.
When Posting the transaction, it then maps the transaction to the wrong Payee / Account.
What's interesting is that the incorrect payees used is one of my accounts and so the transactions end up as transfers when Posting the transaction:
Note that while these aren't fully sanitised, I've done this intentionally to demonstrate they are the same transactions easier.
How can we reproduce the issue?
I don't know for sure how to recreate it - I was cleaning up some Schedules and ended up deleting the existing ones and re-using the find tool to re-create them.
Appreciate that doesn't do much to help, I've tried exporting and re-importing the database, resetting the cache, resetting the sync, deleting the Schedule and recreating, updating the Schedule to a different payee and back again.
Happy to delete the transactions in my budget and upload a slimmed down copy of it if required.
Where are you hosting Actual?
Docker
What browsers are you seeing the problem on?
Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Desktop App (Electron)
Operating System
Linux
@alecbakholdin commented on GitHub (Mar 24, 2025):
Make sure you check your rules. One of them may be renaming Natwest Bills to a transfer.
@newtoat commented on GitHub (Mar 24, 2025):
Yep, it was a rule 🤦♂️
I had somehow ended up with an 'imported payee = nothing' rule. Didn't realise that it would also apply to non-imported transactions / transactions created directly in the applications.
Appreciate the steer, thanks!
@alecbakholdin commented on GitHub (Mar 24, 2025):
Glad I could help!