{"article":{"id":15633212882199,"url":"https://plaid.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/15633212882199.json","html_url":"https://support.plaid.com/hc/en-us/articles/15633212882199-What-are-the-possible-categories-that-can-be-returned-by-the-Plaid-Transactions-product","author_id":396033157154,"comments_disabled":true,"draft":false,"promoted":false,"position":0,"vote_sum":0,"vote_count":0,"section_id":16121107026455,"created_at":"2023-06-28T11:20:56Z","updated_at":"2026-06-04T14:14:37Z","name":"What are the possible categories that can be returned by the Plaid Transactions product?","title":"What are the possible categories that can be returned by the Plaid Transactions product?","source_locale":"en-us","locale":"en-us","outdated":false,"outdated_locales":[],"edited_at":"2026-06-04T14:14:37Z","user_segment_id":null,"permission_group_id":1121774,"content_tag_ids":[],"label_names":[],"body":"<p>The full list of possible categorization values returned via the <code style=\"border:none;background:#f1f3f5;padding:1px 4px;border-radius:3px;font-size:0.9em;\">personal_finance_category</code> data field can be found in this <a href=\"https://plaid.com/documents/pfc-taxonomy-all.csv\">taxonomy CSV file</a>.</p>\n<p>The full list of possible values returned for the legacy <code style=\"border:none;background:#f1f3f5;padding:1px 4px;border-radius:3px;font-size:0.9em;\">category</code> data field can be retrieved through a request to the <a href=\"https://plaid.com/docs/api/products/transactions/#categoriesget\"><code style=\"border:none;background:#f1f3f5;padding:1px 4px;border-radius:3px;font-size:0.9em;\">/categories/get</code></a> endpoint.</p>\n<p><strong>Note</strong>: The <code style=\"border:none;background:#f1f3f5;padding:1px 4px;border-radius:3px;font-size:0.9em;\">category</code> data field has been deprecated and is no longer being improved. Use <code style=\"border:none;background:#f1f3f5;padding:1px 4px;border-radius:3px;font-size:0.9em;\">personal_finance_category</code> instead.</p>","user_segment_ids":[]}}