# Setting to disable automatic categorization for transactions

**URL:** <https://community.stessa.com/t/setting-to-disable-automatic-categorization-for-transactions/10120>\
**Category:** Wishlist\
**Created:** [March 10, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/setting-to-disable-automatic-categorization-for-transactions/10120 "2023-03-10T04:03:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![chriswbrashear](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/community.stessa.com/chriswbrashear/32/805_2.png) [@chriswbrashear](https://community.stessa.com/u/chriswbrashear)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/setting-to-disable-automatic-categorization-for-transactions/10120/1 "2023-03-10T04:03:33Z")

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Stessa trying to guess the category for transactions is really hit or miss, I would love to have an option to just disable it. For my Stessa Cash Management accounts, literally every transaction is a “transfer” even if it’s a cleaner payment or a mortgage payment. I understand that machine learning is setting categories, which is a black box and if it works for people that’s great, I am just not seeing the value in the feature. Alternatively, could we have some kind of visual indicator or filter indicating when a category was set automatically vs manually so I can always go review the automatic ones and not assume it’s out of the “needs review” phase of entering transactions? Disabling automatic categorization seems easier so I would be fine with that, and it can default to “on” so only people like me need to change it.

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**Author:** ![sgrigg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@sgrigg](https://community.stessa.com/u/sgrigg)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/setting-to-disable-automatic-categorization-for-transactions/10120/2 "2023-03-12T18:55:27Z")

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+1 for this - and for some additional options for existing machine learning. For example - I have 14 properties where I pay sewer. Because some of the amounts are the same between properties Stessa picks one property for each of the amounts that are the same so I end up with that property paying 4-5 sewer fees.