Tags feature is live! šŸš€

Have you been using the tags feature lately? It just came out a few days ago.
These tags can be used in filters under insights. You can custom-tag your transactions!


Adding a tag:
Tap on a transaction ā†’ details page ā†’ add a tag / select a tag

How to filter tags:
Filters on transaction history / Insights - money-in/out

Quick poll. Weā€™re curious to know the spends youā€™ve been struggling to track!

  • Lunch
  • Chai/Coffee
  • Cabs
  • Bills
  • Fees
  • Something else? Let us know below!

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Oh and, if you had to custom tag your transactions, How would you name them? :thinking:

Eg: For cabs, Iā€™d call it Uber/Ola or ride back home. Even though itā€™s the same thing, the terms used are different.

Weā€™d like to automate the tags for you!
Let us know your thoughts on tags.

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My most used custom tag is def gonna be ā€œsuttaā€ :sweat_smile:

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Hahaha! Yes!
Question to you. Letā€™s say youā€™re purchasing it via different merchants/shops, would you still name it the same way?

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Yes! Iā€™ll tag them the same.
Iā€™ve set up similar custom tags for grocery, snack (yep, thatā€™s a wide generalisation) and pet food.

Hopefully Iā€™ll remember all of these. :sweat_smile:

Meanwhile can we work on getting a neat pie chart with the info about all of these spends and income by the month end? Itā€™d be cool if we could see the report in the app, or via emailā€¦. Or both.

I got a thing for pie charts. They look phenomenal!

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Pie chartsā€¦hmm.
Know any apps which do this? Kinda want to see a reference.

Absolutely.

Needs to be fun and engaging, foā€™shu.
Be lively and easy to give us that feel of physical money (That be awesome)

While doing my research I realised none of our competitors are doing this yet. Plenty of room to maneuvre and perfect this.

Hereā€™s some references I dug up. Probably lame mock-ups, but should be good enough to give us a launch pad.

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Looks like bills is the most struggled one.
What kind of bills to be specific? :thinking:

I think you can check any budgeting or money tracking app. It will be just a different visualization for Tracking Spends.

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Checkout Wallet by Budgetbakersā€¦ its the best :ok_hand:

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Walnut was an app I used to use a lot in my droid days. Itā€™d scan my sms to collate data on my bills and keep track of em.

Doesnā€™t work so well on ios becauseā€¦ā€¦ limitations :smile: so I left it.

Itā€™s a good app for reference.

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Hereā€™s the play store link for walnut.

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I want to try Jupiter on iOS but canā€™t do that because canā€™t change mobile no on Jupiter!!

Walnut is a good app. It even allows to attach bill/receipt with transaction. Thats something which one of the digital bank I used does too. Its good feature!!

Just curious, if you wanted to create your own category of expenses/incomes, what would it be?
(Categories are the ones with icons)

and assume you made a transaction and your suitable category wasnā€™t there for it, would you have used tags for it? Do you see tags as a backup categorization?

Personally, I use tags only for my Zomato and Amazon as of now. Zomato because I rarely order food online as I usually go out to eat. This transaction will be considered as dining out.
Iā€™d like to keep my online food spending separate, so tags helped me in this case. I marked those transactions as Zomato.

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I use tags in a similar fashion but quite a lot.
I think of them as sub-categories. After some initial frustration with why canā€™t I make my own category for this or that. I learnt to use tags.
It helps me organize better.
Letā€™s say grocery, now it has sub-categories[tags] like fruits, breakfast, e.t.c.
All my eating-outs are categorized as dining out but from that there is: lunch, dinner, with friends, e.t.c. as sub-categories[tags].
So the present categories with customizable tags works well for me.

One thing that bothers me about categories is that, once I categorize a certain payee as dining out, or shopping why doesnā€™t it auto-categorize it that way and let us manually edit it if we want. The current auto-categorization behaviour has a hit:miss ratio of 2:10 or so.

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It seems some random tags appear when we select a category to aee the transactions. I guess only those tags should appear which are actually ā€˜taggedā€™ in the category otherwise it just waste time!!

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@Shawnpinto correct me if my understanding is wrong ?

The ones that are tagged will show up in the filters, yes.
Those transactions that arenā€™t tagged, will have a default category that will fall under insights.

Tags are like an additional feature given to further label your transactions so you can track them easily.

The point I was raising is, when you choose category in insights and go inside category some tags appear which arenā€™t related to those transactions. is it usual behaviour ?

Hmm, do you mean the tags that are appearing on the top? Yes, itā€™s expected. It will show you all the tags you had created.

I tried to do this - Under insights, I wanted to check my shopping category so I clicked on it. In shopping, I was able to see my online and offline store spends.

Then I clicked on the Amazon tag and I was able to see all my amazon transactions in the shopping category for March.