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Inaccurate transaction categorization and budget tracking

💸 moneyproduct problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 3/5

A Rocket Money user reports that the app consistently miscategorizes transactions, such as labeling rent as spending money, and incorrectly calculates their paycheck and total spending.

Who's affected: A Rocket Money app user.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. Develop a machine learning model that learns from user-specific categorization corrections to improve future accuracy.
  2. Create a 'custom rule' interface where users can define specific merchant names or transaction types to be permanently assigned to specific categories.
  3. Build a manual override feature for paycheck recognition that allows users to define their own income frequency and amount to bypass automated detection.
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Real voices

“It categorizes every purchase wrong, I try to correct it but it’s exhausting having to correct every single transaction. It counts rent as “spending money” and then tells me I’m spending more money than I earn due to the credit card I pay off every week. Also miscalculates my paycheck every time”

Source: App Store review: rocket-money

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