How come you can't tag transactions that are split?

Adding tags to transactions that are split is possible, seemahundal.

After making the split, open the transaction in your bank register and assign the tag from there. Here's how:

1. Go to the Accounting menu and select Chart of Accounts.
2. Look for the bank and click View register.
3. Go to the Tags section and type in the tag that you want to assign.
4. Click Save.

You can also go to the Categorized tab in the Banking screen. Just look for the transaction and click on it. Then, assign the tag in the Tags section. 

More details about this are discussed in these articles:

• Tag Transactions In QuickBooks Online
• What Are Tags And Why Should I Use Them?

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The reason Quickbooks does not let you use Tags for split transactions in Basic and Essentials products is that they want you to upgrade to their more expensive "product".  Tags that allow split transactions are called "Classes" and you have to pay for that premium feature to the tune of $35/month. I used classes for many years on Quickbooks Desktop Pro, but I have lost all previous years classes because I do not want to pay the extra $360 x 2 accounts = $720 a year for the next higher product containing class feature (2022 pricing).

This is no way to treat customers who have been using your software and relied on this feature for their accounts for years. Class functions should be available at all product levels.

As a note, if you need to bulk apply tags:

Banking -> Tags -> See all untagged transactions.

Next tick the transactions to be changed and click 'update tags' to add/remove tags.

Quickbooks PLEASE add this feature.  I have taken the steps listed and submitted a feedback request already!

I can't believe this isn't possible.  What's the point of tags if we can't tag each individual line of a split transaction.  I always thought I was missing something and just needed to figure out what to do.  Please fix this!

I have been wanting the same feature.

The only workaround that I've discovered is to exclude the original transaction and create multiple new transactions.  By doing this you are able to tag each transaction individually.  

For my business it's helpful to use tags for jobs I perform.  This allows me to run a P&L for each job according to a quickbooks tag associated to jobs.  Albeit this does produce a huge number of tags, it can help to keep them sorted in groups and use a consistent system for naming each tag.   

I may have figured out a SOLUTION to this problem.  I was having the same issue and tried to figure the best/easiest way to correct this.

1.  First Categorize your expense.

2.  Then click on your "Categorized" transactions.

3.  Find your transaction and click on the purple category description to pull up the full "Bank Deposit" page - where you're able to edit the transaction.

4.  At the bottom of the page, click on "More" (it should be listed next to "Make recurring").

5.  When the pop-up window comes up, click on "Copy" (note: this may only be available for withdrawals/expenses).

6.  This should make a copy of the transaction in your bank register (note: the duplicate transaction won't show up in your "Categorized" list, but it will show up in your bank register).

7.  Click on "Go to bank register" at the top right of your transactions page.

8.  From there, you should be able to open the bank register for whichever account that the transaction was in, find the 2 transactions (1 being a copy), and you should be able to manually adjust the amount for each transaction, and also create a separate tag for each transaction.

I know other people have mentioned before about manually creating a separate transaction for the amounts that you need to split, but this may be an easier/quicker way to do so.  It also shouldn't mess up your balance, because your "Categorized" transaction should still show the total amount of that transaction.  But when you click into it, you will see it only listed for the amount that you manually entered.  This should also correctly show only that manually entered amount when you run P&L reports by tag groups.

Hope this helps!!!