Plain-word payees: a bookkeeper that knew Safeway but not 'Grocery Store'

Another open-source finance app's import fixture exposed a gap in ai-bookkeeper's built-in keywords: generic payee words.

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ai-bookkeeper filed Safeway and Whole Foods under meals but left a payee that just says Grocery Store unsuggested, and the same for Mobile Phone Provider. Nothing in HCB's card feed or bank2ynab's samples had exposed it, because real descriptors carry brand names. The nine-line labelled import fixture of the open-source Maybe app did (4 of 9 suggested before, 6 of 9 after two small rules). It is a weak sample, written by hand, and the 6 of 9 is tuned on itself. Pharmacy and Movie Theater stay open on purpose: they are personal spending, which a business chart has no account for. The README keeps the log.

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