Personal Finance

Spending Insights

Intelligent Spending Insights and Analytics API

Understanding where money goes is the first step to financial wellness. Fiskil analyzes spending patterns to generate actionable insights that help users improve their financial health.

Users Don't Understand Their Spending

Most people don't know where their money actually goes each month, making it impossible to find savings opportunities.

  • No clear picture of total spending by category

  • Unaware of wasteful spending patterns

  • Can't identify subscription creep and forgotten services

  • Miss opportunities to save on recurring expenses

  • Don't see spending trends until reviewing bank statements

AI-Powered Spending Analysis and Insights

Analyze transaction patterns to generate personalized insights about spending habits, trends, and opportunities to save.

Spending Breakdown

Categorize and visualize spending across all categories with trends over time.

Personalized Insights

Generate contextual insights like "You spent 30% more on dining this month" or "You could save $80/month by reducing coffee purchases".

Subscription Detection

Identify all subscriptions and recurring payments with cost summaries.

Savings Opportunities

Highlight specific areas where users could reduce spending.

How to Implement Spending Insights

Add intelligent spending analytics to your personal finance platform.

1

Connect Bank Accounts

User connects accounts to enable transaction analysis.

2

Analyze Spending Patterns

API analyzes 3-12 months of transactions to identify patterns and trends.

3

Generate Insights

Receive personalized insights, spending breakdowns, and savings recommendations.

4

Display in App

Present insights in your app with visualizations and actionable recommendations.

Key Features

Category Spend Analysis

Detailed breakdown of spending by category with comparisons to previous periods.

Merchant-Level Insights

See spending by merchant to identify frequent purchases and loyalty opportunities.

Trend Detection

Identify increasing or decreasing spending trends across categories.

Unusual Spending Alerts

Flag unusual spending patterns that deviate from normal behavior.

Peer Benchmarking

Compare spending to anonymized peer benchmarks (optional).

Savings Recommendations

AI-generated suggestions for reducing spending in specific areas.

Real-World Examples

Neobank App

A digital bank provides spending insights to help customers understand their finances.

Result: Customers with insights enabled save average of $320/month by identifying wasteful spending.

Financial Coaching App

A financial wellness platform uses insights to provide personalized coaching.

Result: Coaches use insights to have data-driven conversations, improving outcomes by 45%.

Budget Planning Tool

A budgeting app shows spending insights to help users set realistic budgets.

Result: Budget adherence improved by 60% when users understand their actual spending patterns.

Technical Specifications

API Endpoints

  • GET /accounts/{accountId}/spending-insights
  • GET /accounts/{accountId}/spending-by-category
  • GET /accounts/{accountId}/subscriptions
  • POST /insights/generate

Data Types

  • Spending by category

  • Spending trends

  • Merchant frequency

  • Subscription list

  • Savings opportunities

  • Peer comparisons

Authentication

OAuth 2.0 / CDR consent

Real-Time Data

Yes

Frequently Asked Questions

We recommend analyzing 6-12 months of transactions for meaningful trends and insights.

Spending breakdowns, category trends, subscription costs, unusual purchases, savings opportunities, and peer comparisons.

Yes, insight generation adapts to individual spending patterns and can be customised for your app's focus.

AI models analyze spending patterns to find high-frequency purchases, expensive subscriptions, and category overspending.

Yes, insight history allows users to see how their spending patterns change and whether they've improved.

Yes, insights are generated from consented data and presented only to the account owner.

Weekly or monthly refreshes provide updated insights while avoiding alert fatigue.

Ready to Get Started?

Join hundreds of companies using Fiskil to power their personal finance applications. Get started today with our developer-friendly API.

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