It would be good if you could offer a choice of an essential list of categories and a full list. I don't tend to use the investment or budget side of a program. Usually I am importing data from another program so want to import the categories that I already have. Obviously different to anyone ...

Moneyspire allows you to close old payees in drop down lists when entering a new transaction and MMEX allows you to hide them which is essentially the same. This seems like the neatest solution to retaining old payees and their transactions but not getting in the way when entering new transsctions ...