Categories and subcategories
Group expenses into main categories and subcategories, create one while you add a bill, and see what each costs over the last 12 months.
Categories answer "what is this cost for?": housing, utilities, transport. Use main categories for the big groups and subcategories for detail, for example Housing → Rent and Housing → Repairs.
Create a category while adding a bill
In the expense form, open Category and type a name. If it does not exist, choose New main category, or open an existing one and choose Add subcategory to it. The new category is created when you save the expense. If the name already exists, Figa uses the existing one.
Manage categories
Open Organize → Categories to add, rename or delete them. For each category you can set:
- Name and an optional Description.
- Color, used in charts and lists.
- Parent category: choose a main category to make it a subcategory, or No parent (root category).
Categories go two levels deep: a subcategory cannot have its own subcategories.
See what a category costs
Open a category to see its total for the last 12 months, the amount by month, its top recipients and its expenses. In Insights, group costs by category to compare periods; filtering a main category includes its subcategories.
Delete a category
A category used by expenses cannot be deleted: move those expenses to another category first. A main category with subcategories needs its subcategories moved or detached first.