Categories

Every transaction, recurring transaction, tag and budget in Maple Budget belongs to one of 30 categories. Tools take the category as a number (category: 6), and the person sees the name (Eating Out). The ids and names are the same for everyone; each person sets their own budget per category.

Category IDs

Using Categories

• add_transaction, update_transaction, add_recurring_transaction, create_split and add_tag take category as an id from this list.
• An id outside 1 to 30 fails with Category must be an integer between 1 and 30. See Errors.
• Income is category 3. Log income with a negative amount_spent, like "-1600.00".
• Tags live inside a category. A transaction can only use tags from its own category; get_on_launch_data lists each tag with its category.
• get_categories and get_categorical_overview return each category's spending and budget for a month.