Most of the things you’re looking to do can be done/fixed just by using the Budget Journal sheet which comes with the Savings Budget when installed in Google (e.g. Setting a starting Savings amount of $3,000 in whatever Category you’d like, on whatever date you’d like). For the Savings column issue, it may be related to you not having the “Track” column installed in the Categories sheet. Please see the Savings Budget page for more information about all of this.