Where can I find a transaction that is showing up in my budget but nowhere in any of the transaction views?

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Where can I find a transaction that is showing up in my budget but nowhere in any of the transaction views?

I have a credit of $13 (shows as -$13) on a line in my budget under "Everything Else" for "Auto & Transport". I need re-categorize it. When I click the link in the Budget for "View Transactions for Auto & Transport", it takes me to a page with five transactions categorized under various Auto & Transport sub-categories. None are this transaction and there are no credits shown. When I display the entire month's transactions and pick through them one-by-one, it is not there. Where is it?

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Thank you for your response but I don't believe the Mint FAQ you provided is relevant here, because the transaction I am looking for fell under the "Everything Else" heading, so it is not a budgeted item. I will go through the steps I am following again in case I wasn't clear enough in my OP. I click on the Budgets link on the top of the page. I click the Aug 2016 link to load that month's budget. At the bottom there is the Everything Else section. I click the arrow to expand it. The first item is an Auto & Transport transaction (no subcategory) for -$13. When I click the link for Auto & Transport it goes to this page --> https://mint.intuit.com/transaction.event?query=category:%22auto%20%26%20transport%22&startDate=08/01/2016&endDate=08/31/2016&exclHidden=T. Just for grins I change exclHidden=F. There is no $13 (+ or -) transaction on that page. Then I go to this link to try to find it again which exposes ALL of my transactions for the entire month of August. https://mint.intuit.com/transaction.event?startDate=08/01/2016&endDate=08/31/2016&exclHidden=F I go through each transaction and it is not here either. So again I ask - where is it? (Incidentally it is doing the same thing for a credit of $18 under my Home category, which is also an "Everything Else" item for August.

chersull_99

the same thing is happening to me. It is really aggravating!!!
Also just with the Everything else tab.

sarah.fuzesi

Hello there,

Just an update, we passed this along to our Dev't team. They're already working into Budgets showing Incorrect Spending/Amount or no Matching Transactions for different Categories (Added 9/19/2016 9:35PM PST)

Mint Aga

I think that the answer is in the thread "Phantom budget under Everything Else" its just the way the budget keeps track of transactions over multiple months. It was fixed when i added a heading category for the subcategory that is carried over 3 months. THanks

sarah.fuzesi

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