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On the Reconcile screen, if you click the 'Add details' button for a transaction that doesn't have a suggested contact, Xero will autofill the 'To' field for the new transaction with the statement line Payee field. This is true whether or not that field matches an existing contact name and Xero doesn't indicate new contacts in any way.

I would like the option to restrict this autofill to only use existing contact names, or turn it off entirely. I have a lot of contacts where the Payee field is slightly different than the contact name in Xero and this autofill created a lot of duplicate contacts before I realized what was happening. Even now, I have to manually delete and re-enter the correct contact during reconciliation if Xero auto-fills the wrong name.

At minimum, the new transaction entry should have a label showing whether an auto-filled contact is new. This would help us avoid creating duplicate contact that have to be merged later on.