I have some ESPP shares that I track in Quicken. I moved the shares into my brokerage account, which also has shares of the same security that are non-ESPP shares. When Quicken downloads data from my broker, it decides that I have more shares of that stock, according to the broker, than in my register (the extra being the ESPP shares) and that I have no shares, according to my broker, of the ESPP, and that my shares in the register must be lacking a placeholder.
For example, if I have 15,000 of stock, and 10,000 are ESPP shares, Quicken will tell me that I have 15,000 shares of the stock, but my register shows 5,000, and I have 0 shares of the ESPP but my register shows 10,000. Then it wants to put in place holders. They both have the same ticker symbol of course.
Keeping the shares in different accounts is not an option since my broker will report them as being in the account whn I download data. It was tough enough getting the data in in the first place since the shares came from two different options accounts and two ESPP accounts, and Quicken could not handle the stock options, since some were done as a stock swap. So I had originally put in the stock option shares as ordinary shares and calculated the cost basis manually. And the ESPP shares were originally entered before Quicken handled ESPP, so I already went through redoing those when that feature was added. I don't want to go through anything again that I can avoid, but I don't want to be nagged every time I download data that things don't agree, when they really do agree. Is there a way around this?