Get Amazon Transaction Details
N
Nathan Carlson
If you are like me I buy ALOT off of Amazon.com So because its too much of a pain to break down those purchases into categories I just create one Big one called "Household Goods". Its a BIG category. It would be very helpful if we could get some of that data and improve the splitting of the transactions based off that info to improve the analysis of our spending.
Log In
D
Danny Fuhriman
This is something that Copilot has implemented and I found very helpful while trialing their product. Ultimately though, I obviously stuck with Lunch Money. :)
E
Evan Broder
Another potential avenue for extracting this data is that order numbers do show up, at least for Chase's Amazon credit card, in the transaction view on the credit card side. I'm not entirely sure how to make use of that (there's no field in Plaid's API that would include that information, and it doesn't show up in Chase's CSV export), but if there was some way to get it out (new feature in Plaid?), then that would make it much easier to cross-reference.
M
Michael Bianco
Here's how I implemented this: https://github.com/iloveitaly/lunchmoney-amazon
Would still be awesome if this was included in the product though.
P
Past User 18578
Michael Bianco: Hi Michael, I am new to Lunch Money and really interested in this solution. Do you have suggestions for how I (a a non-coder, but familiar with no-code apps so I get the idea) can learn how to do "asdf install and npm install to setup node & npm packages"?
M
Michael Bianco
I would
love
this. I wonder if this could be done by:- Make sure all amazon transactions have an amazing payee
- Download the b2b order report https://smile.amazon.com/gp/b2b/reports
- Setup a mapping between amazon categories & budget categories
- Use the API to update the categories of various purchases