# Setting Budgets **URL:** \ **Category:** Feedback & Ideas\ **Created:** [April 13, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/setting-budgets/1890 "2020-04-13T11:14:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Liam](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Liam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/setting-budgets/1890/1 "2020-04-13T11:14:58Z")
Hello, When defining my budgets, it is possible to set the Total Budget at the top, and the budgets per Category below. It would be useful if you could display the sum of all the category budgets, so that we can make sure that the sum of the category budgets do not exceed the total budget defined at the top. Hope this makes sense. This would be really useful. Thanks, Liam ---
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:18am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/setting-budgets/1890/2 "2020-04-13T11:18:59Z")
> [@Liam](#): > > It would be useful if you could display the sum of all the category budgets, so that we can make sure that the sum of the category budgets do not exceed the total budget defined at the top. Hi @Liam! This can’t happen in the app, if the budgets at the bottom exceed the total budget, the sum at the top will increase with them. πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Liam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Liam](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Liam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/setting-budgets/1890/3 "2020-04-13T11:37:51Z")
Ok, good to know πŸ™‚ but on the flip side, it would be good to know the total of the individual categories, so that the total budget can be reduced if the total of the individual categories happens to be less than the total budget at the top?