[Feature] Allow child transactions in a split transaction to have different payees

[joel-jeremy]

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When doing transfers/bill payments in fintech apps, there's usually fees associated with every transaction. It would be great if we could model these fees through split transactions. Right now, users will need to create a separate transaction for fees which can make it hard to track which parent transaction that fee is for.

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Allow child transactions in a split transaction to have different payees

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[kyrias]

Child transactions can already have different payees.

[joel-jeremy]

That is true for transfer payees but for regular payees, they do not show up on the payee selection.

[kyrias]

The UI is a bit wonky here, but if you click the yellow "Make Transfer" button you can select among all of them. For some reason showing only the transfer payees is the default on child transactions, though I don't understand why.

@MatissJanis Does the current default behavior make sense to you? Otherwise I think we should change it.

[joel-jeremy]

I think we should show regular payees too in the payee selection for child transactions. This is useful for entering transaction fees.

[kyrias]

My point is that we do, we just don't do it by default and I think we should change this default.

[joel-jeremy]

Sorry, yeah - I meant show them by default. I agree.

[joel-jeremy]

There also seems to be a bug with the amounts. I split the transaction between an off-budget account and a payee and the whole transaction amount (100) was deposited to the off-budget account instead of the the child amount (50):

[kyrias]

Ah, that's because the payee of the parent transaction is the transfer payee. The simple work-around would be to have the non-transfer payee as the payee of the parent transaction.

I have a feeling that this will be involved to fix, but please do file a bug issue about it.

[joel-jeremy]

Thank you! The workaround works. I have filed a separate bug report for this: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/1574