# Expense preparation

In order to setup the Expense app to work, there are some setups in the system to be setup.

Create Unknown custom item and Unknown expense category.

This is used where the user does not know where to allocate expense, the system will default to this expense.

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Set the default unknown category and subcategory

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Create all your expenses

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