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BudgetSquirrel / BudgetTracker

Budget Tracker allows users to manage their money more efficiently. This API has endpoint to save, create, and manage your budgets and goals.

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Integrate Plaid API #98

Open nmbusman opened 5 years ago

nmbusman commented 5 years ago

All the budgeting /saving / investment apps are utilizing the Plaid API. The API is free for testing and fetches transactions, account balance, and authorization.

https://plaid.com/pricing/

https://plaid.com/docs/quickstart/

ianmann56 commented 5 years ago

We have talked about doing bank integration. For the unforseeable future, it is being treated as a stretch goal. There are two problems that we would need to address:

Security and legal BS
Every bank account integration I've heard about ends up failing in the area of categorization because of companies who name their vendor names something like: "sflkasdjh Visa CA fjds;fklsj". How do we categorize companies who don't have the decency of giving us a real name.