Build A Budget From Recurring Spend
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Recipe · 4 steps
Build A Budget From Recurring Spend
with Tink
Inspect recurring spend and categories, create a budget, then read its progress.
- List the user's confirmed recurring transactions to ground the budget in real recurring spend.
- List the Tink categorisation taxonomy for the supplied locale.
- Create a business budget for the requested category, amount, and period.
- Read the new budget back to surface its current progress and remaining amount.
What you'll need to have ready
- accessToken: A user access token authorized for enrichment and money-manager reads/writes.
- locale: Optional locale for the category taxonomy (e.g. en_US).
- budgetName: A name for the budget.
- amount: The budget limit amount as a decimal string (e.g. 500.00).
- currencyCode: ISO 4217 currency code for the budget amount (e.g. EUR).
- period: The budget period (ONE_OFF, WEEK, MONTH, QUARTER, or YEAR).
- categoryId: The category id the budget filters spend by.
For your developer
Arazzo workflow tink-com:recurring-spend-budget, 4 operations: listRecurringTransactions → listCategories → createBusinessBudget → getBusinessBudget. Specs on APIs.io.