diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 4a7ba3c..d5cffb9 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -761,9 +761,9 @@
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     },
     "handlebars": {
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-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/handlebars/-/handlebars-4.7.3.tgz",
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/handlebars/-/handlebars-4.5.1.tgz",
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       "dev": true,
       "requires": {
         "neo-async": "^2.6.0",
@@ -1922,9 +1922,9 @@
       "dev": true
     },
     "uglify-js": {
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-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/-/uglify-js-3.8.0.tgz",
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/-/uglify-js-3.6.7.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-4sXQDzmdnoXiO+xvmTzQsfIiwrjUCSA95rSP4SEd8tDb51W2TiDOlL76Hl+Kw0Ie42PSItCW8/t6pBNCF2R48A==",
       "dev": true,
       "optional": true,
       "requires": {
diff --git a/src/lib/categoriser.ts b/src/lib/categoriser.ts
index 22cbe0e..f2fb1e9 100644
--- a/src/lib/categoriser.ts
+++ b/src/lib/categoriser.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 import { Transaction } from './transaction';
+
 import { parse_string_rules, parse_number_rules, parse_identifier_rules } from './rule/matcher';
 import { Category } from '../types/category';
 import { CategoryRule } from '../types/category-rule';
 import { NumericMatchConfig, StringMatchConfig } from '../types/match-config';
 
-import { RuleMatchMode } from '../lib/enums';
-
 import moment from 'moment';
 
 export class Categoriser {
@@ -26,15 +25,7 @@ export class Categoriser {
   }
 
   static transaction_matches_rule(txn: Transaction, rule: CategoryRule): boolean {
-    let mode = rule['mode'] || RuleMatchMode.Strict;
-    // Start with true for strict mode (if anything doesn't match it's false,
-    // if all match it's true) or false for flex mode (if any of the things
-    // match it's true, if none match it's false)
-    let match: boolean = mode == RuleMatchMode.Strict;
-
-    const _cmp = (first: boolean, second: boolean) => (
-      mode === RuleMatchMode.Strict ? first && second : first || second
-    );
+    let match: boolean = true;
 
     // identifier match is most important
     if (
@@ -47,7 +38,7 @@ export class Categoriser {
     ['type', 'description', 'source'].forEach((prop: string) => {
       let match_config: StringMatchConfig = rule[prop];
       if (match_config) {
-        match = _cmp(match, parse_string_rules(txn[prop], match_config));
+        match = match && parse_string_rules(txn[prop], match_config);
       }
     });
 
@@ -55,7 +46,7 @@ export class Categoriser {
       let match_config: NumericMatchConfig = rule[prop];
 
       if (match_config) {
-        match = _cmp(match, parse_number_rules(txn[prop], match_config));
+        match = match && parse_number_rules(txn[prop], match_config);
       }
     });
 
@@ -64,7 +55,7 @@ export class Categoriser {
       let match_config: NumericMatchConfig = rule['txn_day'];
 
       let day: number = moment(txn.date).utc().date();
-      match = _cmp(match, parse_number_rules(day, match_config));
+      match = match && parse_number_rules(day, match_config);
     }
 
     return match;
diff --git a/src/types/category-rule.ts b/src/types/category-rule.ts
index b748126..5c17c3c 100644
--- a/src/types/category-rule.ts
+++ b/src/types/category-rule.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { NumericMatchConfig, StringMatchConfig, IdentifierMatchConfig } from "./match-config";
-import { RuleMatchMode } from "../lib/enums";
 
 export type CategoryRule = {
   identifier?: IdentifierMatchConfig,
@@ -9,6 +8,5 @@ export type CategoryRule = {
   source?: StringMatchConfig;
   debitAmount?: NumericMatchConfig;
   creditAmount?: NumericMatchConfig;
-  mode?: RuleMatchMode;
   [key: string]: any,
 };
diff --git a/test/categoriser.spec.ts b/test/categoriser.spec.ts
index b9e15a8..c06d38b 100644
--- a/test/categoriser.spec.ts
+++ b/test/categoriser.spec.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-import { expect, assert } from 'chai';
-import 'mocha';
-
+//mocha -r ts-node/register  t/report.spec.ts
 import { Transaction } from '../src/lib/transaction';
 import { Categoriser } from '../src/lib/categoriser';
-import { Category } from '../src/types/category';
 
+import { expect, assert } from 'chai';
+import 'mocha';
 import { RuleMatchMode } from '../src/lib/enums';
-
+import { Category } from '../src/types/category';
 describe('Categoriser', () => {
   it('Can parse rules', () => {
     let transaction = new Transaction({
@@ -184,12 +183,6 @@ describe('Categoriser', () => {
             ["=", "CDE"],
           ]
         },
-        "description": {
-          "rules": [
-            ["=~", "this is a bill"]
-          ]
-        },
-        "mode": RuleMatchMode.Flex
       },
       "className": "cat-bills",
       "id": "bills"
@@ -357,18 +350,10 @@ describe('Categoriser', () => {
         debitAmount: 5000,
         creditAmount: 0,
         identifier: 'CDE',
-      }),
-      new Transaction({
-        date: '20/01/2017',
-        type: 'DEB',
-        description: 'this is a bill',
-        debitAmount: 99.99,
-        creditAmount: 0,
       })
     ];
 
     return categoriser.categorise_transactions(transactions).then(() => {
-      console.log(transactions)
       expect(transactions[0].calculatedMonth).to.equal('201701');
       expect(transactions[0].categories.map((cat) => cat.id)).to.deep.equal(['tfr-pers']);
       expect(Categoriser.is_internal_transfer(transactions[0])).to.be.true;
@@ -390,7 +375,6 @@ describe('Categoriser', () => {
       expect(transactions[8].categories.map((cat) => cat.id)).to.deep.equal(['income']);
       expect(transactions[9].categories.map((cat) => cat.id)).to.deep.equal(['exp', 'bills']);
       expect(transactions[10].categories.map((cat) => cat.id)).to.deep.equal(['exp', 'bills']);
-      expect(transactions[11].categories.map((cat) => cat.id)).to.deep.equal(['exp', 'bills']);
     });
   });
 });