Amanda Barroso

Hey, y'all, listen, I just went to Target the other day and my receipt was exactly what this listener is talking about.

It was like bluey rain boots, baby wash, some hummus.

I mean, like it had it all.

Oh, my gosh.

Listen, well, we're flying to New Jersey next week and it's going to be snow on the ground.

And this is as close as I can find to snow boots here in Atlanta.

So blue rainbows it is.

But this is, I think, a really common issue.

I'm so glad we got this question.

Absolutely.

So I reached out to folks at Monarch, the folks at YNAB and EveryDollar, and I asked them directly, just like, hey, how do your apps address this issue?

I spoke with the head of product marketing at Monarch.

She explained two features that could potentially solve this problem for our listener, I think.

So the first is this new receipt scanning feature in the app.

So you snap a photo of like your Costco receipt.

Monarch automatically attaches it to the right transaction, right?

And adds details about what you actually bought.

So I think it kind of sounds like it does exactly what our listener was hoping it would do.

It splits one big charge into multiple properly categorized transactions.

Well, it might not categorize it into wants and needs, but it might say peaches belong in groceries, which are needs, right?