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  1. Setup

Categories

Last updated 10 months ago

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Categories are an essential way to organize your transactions in Lunch Money. Every transaction can have at most one category and uncategorized transactions are highly discouraged!

Category Properties

Creating Categories

Category Groups

Editing Categories

FAQ

Manual category creation
Auto-categorization
Reordering
Archiving
Merging
Deleting
Frequently Asked Questions
What are category groups
How to create a new category group
How to add categories to an existing category group
Treat as income
Exclude from budget
Exclude from totals