Hey, just wondering if anyone knows how it might be possible to empty a pot on a specific date, e.g., the end of the month.
For example, if I had an American Express charge card and needed to pay the bill every month, I’d move money into a pot when spent with Amex to make sure I had the amount needed to pay the bill at the end of the month, could IFTTT empty that amount into my account at the end of the month in anticipation for a 1st month payment to them?
Hmmm… If I have to go into the IFTTT app to add the amount to move I may as well go to the Monzo app and move it. I was hoping I could just say ‘empty this pot’ on ‘this date’.
Although convoluted, you could achieve this by creating a simple IFTTT app that is responsible for parsing the amount due from the balance update email.
An email arrives from American Express: Your balance update from OnlineServices@welcome.aexp.com
Your email account automatically forwards that email to yourinboundapp@example.com which is a simple app running for free on something like Heroku
Your app receives the email and extracts the Direct Debit Due value
Your app pushes the value to IFTTT via a webhook
Then from there you’d configure IFTTT to tell Monzo to move the amount.
Edit: or instead of writing your own parser, you could use Zapier since their free plan includes an email parser and you’ll be within the task + action limit.