# How to identify recurring patterns in this set of transactional data

I'm working on a dataset of banking transactions and would like to find recurrent transactions. I've been mapping transactions per merchant in timeseries, and tried to use acf from statsmodels.tsa.stattools to calculate the autocorrelation function but i'm not getting the expected results:

r = acf(ts, fft=False)

For example this set of transaction (ASSURANCE DESJ) is getting an acf score of 0.3159 when it's obviously a recurring transaction (same amount, same frequency).

Another example of recurring transactions with acf=0.22775:

But this one should not be found as a recurring transactions, and get a score not too far from the previous set (0.26919):

I've been checking a lot of different methods, I acutally came up with a combination of auto-correlation on the regular timeserie, auto-correlation on a timeserie with amount=1, with stationnary checking and other rules to have a not so perfect results. I've also checked at ARIMA and other methodology without luck.

Would you have a better way to detect recurring transactions from timeseries ?