Account Balance Alerts
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Garrett Owen
I think it would be really cool to have Lunch Money send an email alert if one of my accounts goes below a specified balance.
Even cooler would be if the account goes below the value of another account. For example, if my checking account balance drops below my credit card owing balance.
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JP Shipherd
Jen from Lunch Money, if you decide to implement this popular request, you may want to consider doing it using webhooks and leveraging a webhooks-enabled 3rd party email service.
An advantage of taking this approach is that it would enable us to provide webhook events to developers. (In fact, if the developer interface supports webhooks, the Lunch Money developer community could build all kinds of notification services, i.e., SMS alerts, WhatsApp messages, etc., in addition to doing the work to provide an email service)
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Eric Dalquist
Even better would be to check vs the sum of balances.
I try to keep my checking account balance "just enough" and I have all my credit cards setup to pay within the same few days each month. What I want is a check that notifies me if: ChecckingAccountBalance is less than 1.5 * Sum(CreditCardBalances)
That gives me a heads up to transfer some additional funds over to the checking account before all the CC payoffs post.