I have 4 loans in Quicken (2014) right now, two of which are paid off. The active loans are an auto loan and my current mortgage.
When an payment is made for the auto loan, it get split as
Payment to Chase Bank $total
[Chase Bank Auto Loan] $principal Interest Exp:Auto $interestMy Home Loan was similar, i.e.,
Payment to Credit Union $total [Mortgage] $principal Interest Exp:Mortgage $interest [Escrow] $escrow
The loan payments started 5/1/13, but something happened on 2/1/14, and the interest and escrow payment changed to category 'Loan Payment:Interest,' and 'Loan Payment:Escrow,' respectively. I had noticed this before and thought "WTF? Gotta fix that!" Well it turns out I CAN'T CHANGE the principal or interest categories! I can change escrow back to the account transfer I had before, but the other two are read-only.
I've been a quicken user for at least 10 years and either never needed to do this (unlikely) or something's changed. Help!
FWIW I was able to change the category/account names in all existing loan payments to what I wanted, and then delete the whole 'Loan Payment' supercategory, but now the interest category is blank. I can change it when I enter a loan payment, but not when I try to edit the reminder.
I'm stumped. Sorry this message is so long. I hope it makes sense.