Q: How do I add a budget?

<ol> <li>From the home page, click on <strong>Add a budget</strong></li> <li>Select a name for the budget, you can use anything you like!</li> <li>Choose the duration- do you want to monitor this amount per week, per month or per year?</li> <li>Select the category or merchant that you want this budget to be in charge of</li> <li>Enter the maximum amount you want to spend for this budget</li> <li>Click confirm and you can start monitoring how much you’ve spent.</li> <li>We’ll notify you when you get close to the budget or exceed it!</li> </ol>

Question 1

What is Spare?

Accepted Answer

Spare is designed to improve your spending habits and help you grow your savings.

Spare offers intelligent insights on your spending patterns by analyzing and categorizing transactions - automatically.

With Spare you can:

Manage your money
Receive intelligent insights and tips to improve your spending
Set budgets to track your spending
See how your accounts move overtime
Save money by receiving offers, personalized for you
Make payments, easily and securely

Our mission

We provide a seamless money managing experience for everyone to stay on the top of their financial lives & build a community of smarter savers.

Question 2

How do I connect another account?

Accepted Answer

From the More page, click on 'My accounts'.

click on the '+' icon in the top right corner to add another account.

You can then select the bank you'd like to add and continue the consent and connection process with your bank provider.

Question 3

How do I add a budget?

Accepted Answer

From the home page, click on Add a budget
Select a name for the budget, you can use anything you like!
Choose the duration- do you want to monitor this amount per week, per month or per year?
Select the category or merchant that you want this budget to be in charge of
Enter the maximum amount you want to spend for this budget
Click confirm and you can start monitoring how much you’ve spent.
We’ll notify you when you get close to the budget or exceed it!

Question 4

Can I use Spare with my business account?

Accepted Answer

As of now, Spare does not support business accounts.

If you'd like to see this in the future, send us an email with feedback on features you'd like to see.

Question 5

Is Spare a free app?

Accepted Answer

Yup. Spare is a free app for everyone to use.

Will Spare sell my data?

Absolutely not. Your privacy is a priority for us. We believe everyone deserves to have a better way to manage their finances. and we are not interested in selling the data to any outside party.

Question 6

I can't find my bank

Accepted Answer

To use Spare, you need to connect a checking, savings or credit card account.

If your bank is not supported by Spare, you can benefit from a select number of partner offers.

If you'd like to see your bank added to Spare, ping us on the live chat or email us your suggestion.

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