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Automatic Expense Read and Addition through text SMS/Email on mobile app

Feature Request

Automatically read an expense from a text SMS or an email.

E.g. Suppose I am on a Las Vegas trip with my friends and I am splitting all my expenses made from my Citi credit card.

  1. I have made an expense group called "Las Vegas" trip. Whatever expenses I add it to defaults to "split equally".

  2. I pay a restaurant bill of $ 78 for Friday dinner night through Citi credit card.

  3. I get a Citi credit text/email alert in my phone notifying the same.

  4. The app in my phone automatically reads the Citi text/email alerts from my phone and automatically adds it in "Las Vegas trip" group and splits the expense equally with my friends.

Posted by Avanish Vyas ·
Status: Open2 comments

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  • Bradley Bernard

    Team•

    Jan 22, 2024

    Cool idea, definitely quite advanced to support that. If this was added, it would likely be a premium only feature due to higher complexity. As for the tech: no app can read your text messages, BUT forwarding a text or email to SplitMyExpenses could trigger a receipt input.

  • Alkarim Billawala

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    Jan 12, 2024

    Additionally, if done via email forwarding (reservations, flights, etc.) perhaps ask for a group tag via # or @, and place the imported expense in an inbox of some kind. This way it is already present when loading up the app, but not interfering with balances if the system imports the amounts incorrectly. Kind of like how kayak or tripit function for travel, but for the expenses only.

    On that note, for trips marked travel, maybe allow for date range specifications and then for auto-imported items (via text or email) to automatically be sent to the corresponding group inbox of it is sent during that range or if the event (flight, hotel reservation) occurs during that date range .