diff --git a/app/Api/V1/Controllers/TransactionController.php b/app/Api/V1/Controllers/TransactionController.php
index 717598f32f..a14ea77e8b 100644
--- a/app/Api/V1/Controllers/TransactionController.php
+++ b/app/Api/V1/Controllers/TransactionController.php
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ class TransactionController extends Controller
         try {
             $transactionGroup = $this->groupRepository->store($data);
         } catch (DuplicateTransactionException $e) {
-            Log::warning('Caught a duplicate. Return error message.');
+            Log::warning('Caught a duplicate transaction. Return error message.');
             // return bad validation message.
             // TODO use Laravel's internal validation thing to do this.
             $response = [
diff --git a/app/Factory/TransactionJournalFactory.php b/app/Factory/TransactionJournalFactory.php
index e40043e593..58eddad0f9 100644
--- a/app/Factory/TransactionJournalFactory.php
+++ b/app/Factory/TransactionJournalFactory.php
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ class TransactionJournalFactory
                                             ->first();
         }
         if (null !== $result) {
-            Log::warning('Found a duplicate!');
+            Log::warning(sprintf('Found a duplicate in errorIfDuplicate because hash %s is not unique!', $hash));
             throw new DuplicateTransactionException(sprintf('Duplicate of transaction #%d.', $result->transactionJournal->transaction_group_id));
         }
     }
diff --git a/app/Repositories/TransactionGroup/TransactionGroupRepository.php b/app/Repositories/TransactionGroup/TransactionGroupRepository.php
index e1444af843..98c489b8b7 100644
--- a/app/Repositories/TransactionGroup/TransactionGroupRepository.php
+++ b/app/Repositories/TransactionGroup/TransactionGroupRepository.php
@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ class TransactionGroupRepository implements TransactionGroupRepositoryInterface
             Log::warning('Group repository caught group factory with a duplicate exception!');
             throw new DuplicateTransactionException($e->getMessage());
         } catch(FireflyException $e) {
+            Log::warning('Group repository caught group factory with an exception!');
             Log::error($e->getMessage());
             Log::error($e->getTraceAsString());
             throw new FireflyException($e->getMessage());