"Everything Else" in Budget

Doug Dubowski

I keep on getting a category "Everything Else" in my budget categories (always a sub category) with zero budget, but I cannot figure out how to get rid of them in my budget category list. The category doesn't show up when you select the "Manage Budget Categories". How do I get rid of these nuisance categories in my budget? Thanks

Doug

Quicken Anja

Hello @Doug Dubowski,

I apologize for any inconvenience these are causing you!

Could you please provide a screenshot of what you are seeing? If needed, please refer to this Community FAQ for instructions on how to attach screenshot. Alternatively, you can also drag and drop screenshots to your response if you are not given the option to add attachments.

Thank you!

UKR

"Everything Else" is a virtual category. It shows up when, in "Select categories to budget" you select the parent category and one or more, but not all of the subcategories. Amounts would appear in Everything Else when you have transactions falling into unselected subcategories.

"Other" is another one of these virtual categories. It shows up when a transaction is categorized to a parent category instead of one of its subcategories.

That's so that parent category rollup totals make sense as being "the sum of all transactions of this parent category and its subcategories".

Doug Dubowski

Thanks for the response. This is a new budget, with very few subcategory entries, none of which are uncategorized under a parent category. The creation of these "Everything Else" subcatagories likely happened two or three years ago. Why would they be carried forward in a new budget, especially when there appears to be no mechanism to get rid of them? Hopefully Quicken developers will see this and fix this "pothole".

Doug Dubowski

Here is a screen shot of the "Everything Else" Sub-category. It has been applied twice to the Categories "Pet Care" and "Utilities". There are more, but this exemplifies the issue I am having.