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title: "NetSuite category mapping for Administrators - Payhawk Help Center"
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description: "Map Payhawk categories to the Oracle NetSuite chart of accounts and items, update them from NetSuite in the Fields library, and see where unmapped expenses go."
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# Mapping Payhawk categories to Oracle NetSuite chart of accounts and items

Payhawk supports user-friendly options for mapping the chart of accounts and items synced from Oracle NetSuite with the respective accounting categories in Payhawk.

When you connect to your Oracle NetSuite organization for the first time, Payhawk automatically pulls the available chart of accounts, items, or both, depending on the integration setup. Later, you can manually update them at any time.

> [!WARNING]
> Expenses with categories that are not mapped to the Oracle NetSuite chart of accounts and items will be automatically mapped to the **Payhawk General** expense account which Payhawk creates in Oracle NetSuite.

To synchronize your categories from Oracle NetSuite with the corresponding Payhawk categories, follow the steps:

1. [Connect Payhawk to Oracle NetSuite](/help/connecting-payhawk-to-oracle-netsuite).
2. In the [Payhawk Web Portal](https://portal.payhawk.com), go to **Settings** > **Fields library**.
3. Click on **Category**.
4. Click on the **Update from** **NetSuite** button.
5. Click on the desired category to map your existing Payhawk categories with the corresponding Oracle NetSuite chart of accounts and/or items.
6. In the panel that opens, under **Account code**, select from the drop-down list with available options. Note that the **Account code** in Payhawk corresponds to the **Internal ID** in Oracle NetSuite.
7. Click on **Save**.

To delete a category, select the checkbox next to it and, in the panel that opens, click on **Operations** > **Delete**. Select **I understand this action cannot be undone** and click on **Confirm**. To create your own category, click on **Add category**.

![Category page in the Payhawk Fields library with the Update from NetSuite button](https://cdn.payhawk.com/Adm%3AIntegrations%3ANetSuite/netsuite_category_update_from_netsuite_20260821_ai.png)

## Next steps

- [Exporting expenses and payments to Oracle NetSuite](/help/exporting-expenses-and-payments-to-oracle-netsuite)