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Budget for Parent Categories instead of Sub-Categories

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Budget for Parent Categories instead of Sub-Categories

Budget needs to be based on main category, not dozens of sub categories. It makes no sense to have budgets for 5-6 items each per main category, that is too granular and extremely cumbersome to the point that budgeting is near-useless. If I budget $500 for food, it shouldn't matter if I'm spending on fast food vs. restaurant etc. If you want to keep sub category budgets, then please keep it as a sub budget that deducts from the main budget, but you have to set the main category budget first. If I set $500 for food "Main Budget", and $250 for restaurants "Sub-Budget", it should give me up to $250 for Restaurants and the other $250 can be spread across any of the other food sub categories. This is critically needed to be fixed. I don't know what happened with the old feature board but this existed as a feature request with many, many upvotes… https://piere.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/24484070615060-Budget-for-Parent-Categories
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