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| [`commodity`] | | `format` | declare a commodity and its number notation & display style | number notation: following entries in that commodity in all files <!-- or until end of current file ? -->; <br>display style: amounts of that commodity in reports
| [`D`] | | | declare a commodity to be used for commodityless amounts, and its number notation & display style | default commodity: following commodityless entries until end of current file; <br>number notation: following entries in that commodity until end of current file; <br>display style: amounts of that commodity in reports
| [`include`] | | | include entries/directives from another file | what the included directives affect
| [`payee`] | | | declare a payee name | following entries until end of current file
| [`P`] | | | declare a market price for a commodity | amounts of that commodity in reports, when -V is used
| [`Y`] | | | declare a year for yearless dates | following entries until end of current file
| [`=`] | | | declare an auto posting rule, adding postings to other transactions | all entries in parent/current/child files (but not sibling files, see [#1212](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1212))
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## Declaring payees
The `payee` directive can be used to declare a limited set of payees which may appear in transaction descriptions.
The ["payees" check](#check) will report an error if any transaction refers to a payee that has not been declared.
Eg:
```journal
payee Whole Foods
```
## Declaring commodities
The `commodity` directive has several functions: