The Emma forum has multiple posts from past years requesting subcategories. This would be so useful to me. For example, Shopping is a category for me but I’d like to create subcategories like “Clothes” to better track my spending. Can we get a subcategories feature soon please please please
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If you’re on the paid version, I’d create a custom category called clothes, then hit split payment and put the exact amount you spent on clothes into this new category, should be the sort of work around you’re after.
I don’t think this is what the op meant.
The idea is to have main categories, but be able to see a breakdown within those categories. So, Shopping > Clothes, books, games, gifts etc
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Gaoler You are correct. That’s what I meant. And I don’t want to do it using tags or notes - I’d like to be able to do it with categories
@Gaoler @kimberly Thanks for your suggestions. We are working on them. 
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I use the hashtags for that, so it seems subcategories would kind of just be a duplication of a feature we already have?
Hashtags and categories are two different things and there are completely different ways to apply either in the app. I am asking for subcategories like other users have requested over the years.
Thank you maryna!
They may be called different things but they do perform exactly the function you described in your original post.
I already do exactly what you are trying to achieve, but with hashtags.
I tag all my shopping as #shopping but then also tag items with things like #clothes, #running, #gadgets etc. depending on what it’s for.
So I can see both an overall spend for my shopping, but then a breakdown of exactly which sub category of shopping by simply clicking on the relevant hashtag.
The only difference is that you can’t set a budget for hashtags, but you can do analytics from them as you described above.
Now that we have added totals in search subcategories might be a bit useless. 
What do you mean by totals in search?
Also, the “only difference” is actually useful
There’s a difference between function and how a tool is accessed through the user interface. Based on how Emma is designed, categories are way easier to edit than tags (at least in my opinion).
We have added the total of all transactions.
Hey guys,
we are designing sub-categories and wanted to get some feedback.
Would you want to use them just for analytics or also for budgeting? Setting a budget on a top category and then having sub-budgets might create a few challenges, but we are still open.
I would want budgets for sub categories so j can group food to be one category and then add eating out and groceries to that as sub categories
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so you have something like:
Food budget: £300
Eating out: £200
Groceries: £100
In this way the total between eating out and groceries can never be bigger than the food budget; makes sense?
@Vladanm999 is this something you expect?
[Food] (£300)
├─ [Eating Out] (£200)
└─ [Groceries] (£100)
└─ [Items like 'Tesco', 'Lidl', etc.]
So the total budget for Food is £300, which includes sub-budgets like Eating Out and Groceries. Each sub-category has its own budget, and within those, you can track individual items or stores.
Blueprint for the budgeting structure:
[Category] (Total budget for category)
├─ [Sub-category] (Budget for sub-category)
│ └─ [Items] (Optional, individual expenses or stores)
├─ [Sub-category]
└─ [Sub-category]
I suppose would benice to have more sub-categories withing the sub-categories up to 3-4 levels as well.
Is that what you want?
Yes exactly that
Not bad i do think it would be good to be able to collapse and expand a category to view the dub categories on the main analytics/budget page to get a quick view of the progress then tap the category or subcategory to see the trans actions