Introducing plum*…
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As a couple, we really struggle to save. We have opened up so many savings accounts with the goal of each putting in £50 a month and then at the end of each month almost nothing will get put in. This has been a cycle for a very long time and at the end of each year, we have been gradually earning higher salaries, but our savings has always been the same.
It’s frustrating, because we want to save money for a deposit on a mortgage for a house, clear our current debts and save for a wedding. None of this in the 8 years of being together has happened. Together, we still have £0 saved up by ourselves and we have become tired of this.
Enter a Facebook messaging bot called Plum*, it’s a machine learning, artificial intelligence machine. It hooks into your bank account reading only the numbers of what comes in and what goes out, as well as when this happens. Once it gathers this information, it will learn when the best time to take money out and when for your savings.
It then keeps it safe in a Barclays held account which isn’t connected with Plum, this means that if anything happens to the company (administration / liquidation) then your money is safe and you can get it back into your account when requested.
We have been using it for 3 months and together, we have saved up almost £70 which is just fantastic. This is more than we could ever get ourselves to save and we can literally leave him to do the work for us, every so often we can just drop in and ask about our savings and goals.
That’s a pretty awesome tool. Glad to see you guys are also being responsible and paying down the debt now rather than later. Procrastination sucks! Great post.
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Thanks, we initially found it off of an Instagram ad. Mike being the developer he is, wanted to jump in head first and see what it can do. He tested the waters the first week and it seemed really cool. Tiff then joined up and we both found that it’s an awesome tool.
You can even create goals and add people to it, so much better than trying to do it ourselves and it lets us do more important things.
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Sounds like an awesome tool, I’ll check it out! I’m so excited about all the cool bots that are coming out through Facebook these days.
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It is such an incredible bot, we can literally save and not think about it. We would also recommend you check out Cleo who can manage your money with weekly budgets and Mobility which will get you coupons for stores you’ve spend money at.
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Such an imspesrive answer! You’ve beaten us all with that!
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