alexcusack/spendtracker

Receive a text message with daily and weekly transaction summaries after every card swipe

spendtracker

Receive a text message with daily and weekly transaction summaries after every card swipe

Using the app directly

If you use Chase bank you can use the app directly.

1. Text 'Signup' to [phone]‬
2. On chase.com, log into your account and add the email address you were sent as one of the emails on your account
3. Then, go into Settings > Alerts > Choose Alerts > Protection and security and toggle on the first alert with the alert threshold set to $0.00
4. You're all set! You should start recieving alerts

How does this work

Everytime you swipe your card an alert email is sent to <your-number>@spndtrckr.com. The mail server http://www.cloudmailin.com/ parses this as JSON and forwards it to spndtrckr.com (http://spndtrckr.com/ping) The spndtrckr.com service parses the email, saves the amount, date, and vendor and sends you a text like the below iwht a spending summary.

$35.81 was just spent @ lyft *ride tue 6am
$68.82 so far today.
$172.88 so far this week.

Development

./manage.py test

 ./manage.py runserver

Notes

• Right now this app only works with Chase.com, since that's the only bank I use :). If you'd like to use it with an alternate bank, it should be just a matter of adding a new/custom parser. Feel free to submit a PR.
• This app was written when learning python for another project, so if you know better idioms feel free to push PRs fixing and refactoring whatever :)

Using email for push notifications was inspired by http://gduverger.com/secret-api-banks