Categories
Categories help you organise expenses and track where your money goes. Duitbot uses categories in summaries, budgets, and the AI's expense classification.
Default categories
When you first start, Duitbot seeds your account with a set of default categories:
- Food
- Transport
- Shopping
- Entertainment
- Utilities
- Health
- Other
Viewing categories
/categories
Lists all your categories. Free plan users see default categories with a lock icon — these cannot be renamed or deleted on the free plan.
Adding a category
/newcategory
Type the new category name when prompted.
Pro plan: up to 10 custom categories Ultimate plan: unlimited custom categories Free plan: custom categories are not available — you can only use the system defaults
Renaming a category
In /categories, tap Edit next to any category and type a new name.
Renaming a category updates all existing expenses that use the old name. This is permanent — the old name will no longer appear in summaries or export data.
Deleting a category
Tap Delete next to a category in /categories.
Existing expenses with a deleted category are not deleted — their category field stays as-is, but that category won't appear in your active list going forward.
How Duitbot picks a category
When you log an expense, Duitbot's AI sees your full category list and picks the best match based on your description. The more descriptive your message, the better the match.
Examples:
- "grab to office" → Transport
- "nasi lemak 5.50" → Food
- "netflix 18.90" → Entertainment
- "panadol 12" → Health
If the AI picks the wrong category, you can edit it — see Editing & Deleting.