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Turn messy bank transaction names into beautiful data
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Wisefin API — Turn messy bank transaction names into beautiful data
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Wisefin is a powerful yet simple API that turns messy bank transactions into beautiful data: logos, merchant names, and more!
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Brandon Vlaar
Nice job! This is a great idea and I've seen several opportunities in my short fintech career to implement something similar. I'll keep this product in mind as I come across more integration opportunities!
Matas
Maker
@bvlaar Hi Brandon, thanks so much for the kind words, really appreciate it!
Brandon Vlaar
@satam I have some questions re the API and there's no contact info on the site. Can you reach out to me? My contact info is in my bio.
Kostas Xiradakis
Will definitely consider integrating this for our transaction feeds in vivawallet.com web and mobile banking appsh.
Fedor Tyurin
Great product! Can you also make transaction categorization? i.e. tell if it was online shopping or groceries or an utility bill? And is this more suitable for card transactions or would it work also for other types of bank transactions?
Naoise
Such an interesting, simple API. But it seems to be down and without maintenance and any social presence. Although the status page shows it up, the API returns a 502. ?makers is this project still up? Any way to contact?
Anna Filou
Such a service is much needed. It's beyond me why bank transaction names are still so terrible in 2020. Especially when the name that shows up in your statement sounds nothing like the name of the company you actually paid.
Jon Fry
Super cool product. How much coverage of bank transaction names / merchant data do you have? Will run some tests through as well!
Matas
Maker
@jon_fry Cheers Jon! I can't give you the exact numbers but I'll say that running your own tests on the free API will definitely clear up its power :) And if you are dealing with a specific transaction format, some light preprocessing can boost the performance even more. Let me know if you need any help onboarding or setting up the API!
Changlin Li
This is really cool and I love the niche your going for! Two questions: 1. Is there a 1-1 correspondence between transaction names and merchant names? That is will your service return 100% correct merchant names based on some proprietary (and potentially evolving) dataset or does it try to "guess" (for some rigorous definition of guess) what the name will be based on both a dataset and some heuristics/ML? 2. What's your privacy policy? How long do you hang on to transaction names?
Matas
Maker
@changlin_li Thanks! 💚 ML and proprietary data - we use a mix of both. As for accuracy, it's not 100% and I don't have the numbers right now but it's pretty great! I'd say the best way to get a feel of it would be to mess around with the free API for a couple of minutes :) I'm glad to say, we currently do not hang onto transaction names at all! The principle is to keep things as private and isolated as possible.
Rachel
This is very cool. I wonder if it's intended just for companies and such, or if you also have personal use in mind. Im thinking airtable + zapier integration could be awesome here.
Matas
Maker
@definetelynotsun Thanks Rachel! I know some folks have manually set up zapier integration so it's definitely doable. I'll see if maybe we can get a quick tutorial for that up and running :)
Eduardo Da Rocha
Hey @satam , tried using the API and got "Internal Server Error". It's still up? We should try to use it at Qonto and I'm trying to test it.