Community Discussion: How do you download two different Vanguard funds with same account number?

How do you download two different Vanguard funds with same account number?

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First: Quicken does NOT download anything. Quicken sends a request to the financial institution to download. The financial institution responds by:

- selecting the appropriate transactions

- formatting the selected transactions

- Sending the selected/formatted transactions to Quicken

Quicken "receives" the selected/formatted/sent transactions.

Second: As noted by user Chris_QPW: Quicken identifies securities by their CUSIP number; NOT by any financial institution "fund" and/or "account" number.

The first time Quicken sees a security it does not recognize in a download, Quicken offers the user the option to create a "new" security in Quicken, or to "match" the downloaded security to an existing Quicken security.

If the user mistakenly allows a downloaded security to be matched to an existing Quicken security, thereafter it will appear as if the two securities are one.

I believe it likely that the op has allowed Quicken to match a downloaded security to the wrong existing Quicken security. The fix for that is simple:

- Edit the two securities in the Security List (*)

- Uncheck the box "Matched with online security" (for each security)

- Go to Tools > Online Center

- Select the appropriate Financial Institution and account

- Select the Holdings tab

- Click the "Compare to Portfolio" button

- Match each security to the correct Quicken security

[ (*) If there is only one of the securities already defined in Quicken:

- Edit that security in the Security List

- Uncheck the box "Matched with online security" for that one already defined security

- Go to Tools > Online Center

- Select the appropriate Financial Institution and account

- Select the Holdings tab

- Click the "Compare to Portfolio" button

- Match the correct downloaded security to the Quicken security whose "matched with online security" box was unchecked above

- ADD the other downloaded security to Quicken]

[On May 11, 2021 @ 3:06 pm, SuperUser markus1957 made basically the same suggestion I have made - but it is not necessary to wait until the next download to get the downloaded securities matched to the correct Quicken securities, if you use the approach - Compare to Portfolio - I specified above.]
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