The Birdy Is a Super Simple Budgeting Site That Records Your Purchases Via Email

http://lifehacker.com/5836887/the-birdy-is-a-super-simple-budgeting-site-that-records-your-purchases-via-email

by coreymaass • 15 years ago

24 10 15 years ago

pinko3• 15 years ago

What I want is something that will parse and auto-categorize my Amazon purchases based on their emailed receipts, and somehow get that info into Mint.com. (Or another app that can replace Mint and also do this.)

Right now Mint does a decent job categorizing most of my other purchases based on vendor, but every month I end up with a huge, opaque line item for Amazon. Really hampers my budgeting.

(I have the same problem with Target and Wal-Mart, but to a lesser degree--they don't carry as wide a variety of stuff as Amazon, and I shop there less.)

matdwyer• 15 years ago

I was coming here to post exactly this for small business...

Something that when I get an email receipt in gmail I can forward to my unique address (or filter in gmail).

I get Canada Post emails that are such a pain in the ass to do accounting for, but even something like monthly saas emails would be great to forward and it detect amount, taxes paid, category, etc. (and let me email to that address in the way this site does as well)

Here's at least two people who want it, who's going to build it? ;-)

coreymaass• 15 years ago

It's actually being built. Check out http://onereceipt.com/ once they open.

fennokin• 15 years ago

Zawinski's law of software envelopment at it again..

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

joecomotion• 15 years ago

These guys have nice Yahoo! Mail App for scanning your inbox automatically and aggregating purchase history:

https://www.projectslice.com/mail_app

Full disclosure: I work for Yahoo! and supported them building this on the Yahoo! Mail app platform.

The Birdy Is a Super Simple Budgeting Site That Records Your Purchases Via Email

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