Why are categories missing or wrong?

Categories come straight from the bank's data feed. We pass them through as-is and don't compute or modify them.

A few common reasons they look off:

• Empty on first sync. Fiskil enriches transactions with categories asynchronously. On first sync, many transactions arrive without categories yet. They get backfilled on the next sync once Fiskil adds them.
• Raw category codes. We write the raw values from the bank's data feed (for example FOOD_AND_DRINK or BANK_FEES). They're meant to be machine-readable, so don't expect pretty labels.
• Empty for some accounts. Some account types (especially loans and savings) don't get enriched at all.

If categories are still missing a few days after a transaction posted, force a manual sync from the sync page to backfill them.