Fly Trap help

• Create an account from Get started and confirm your email. During the private beta you'll be asked for an invite code.
• First-run setup asks for one rule (you can change it anytime) and, optionally, the websites you might want to pause.
• Add a purchase by hand, or import a CSV. Bank linking is optional.

• Download transactions as CSV from your bank or card website (up to 2 MB and 5,000 rows per file).
• Fly Trap guesses the columns; check them in the preview. Tell it whether spending appears as negative or positive numbers.
• If dates could be month-first or day-first, you'll be asked to choose rather than have Fly Trap guess.
• Rows it can't read are listed with the reason. Pending rows are skipped; import them again after they post.
• Importing the same or an overlapping file again skips rows you already have, so totals don't double.

• Clear match: the merchant is on your list or is a dessert shop or delivery app.
• Possible: the evidence is indirect (a coffee chain, a plain Uber charge, a name with “bakery”). Only you know what it was.
• Refunds, credits, transfers, card payments and fees never count as rule breaks. Grocery stores never trigger the dessert rule.
• For date-only records over your daily limit, every purchase that day is up for review because the order isn't known.
• If a purchase's amount, merchant or date changes after you decide, it comes back for review.

Optional read-only bank linking through Plaid is in testing and not yet available for real bank accounts.

• Linking opens Plaid's secure window; you sign in to your bank there, not in Fly Trap.
• The first import can take a few minutes. Later updates arrive when your bank reports them, so recent purchases may be delayed.
• “Needs attention” usually means your bank wants you to sign in again. Use “Fix connection”; your history stays.
• Bank transactions go to your review queue like any other purchase. A bank match alone never starts a pause.
• “Disconnect” revokes Fly Trap's access with Plaid and deletes that bank's accounts and transactions from Fly Trap.

• The companion is a Chrome extension (it also runs in Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers). During the beta it's installed from a download.
• Install: download and unzip it, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, choose “Load unpacked” and select the unzipped folder.
• Pair it: in Fly Trap open Pause → Browser companion → “Get a pairing code”, then type the code into the companion's popup within 10 minutes.
• It covers only that browser profile. Other browsers, other devices, apps, private windows (unless allowed), or removing the extension aren't covered.
• You can see paired browsers and revoke any of them in Pause. A revoked companion clears its blocks.

• A pause lasts exactly 24 hours from when you confirmed the catch and ends on its own, even if the app is closed or offline.
• It covers the websites you had chosen at that moment, plus their subdomains. Bank sites, Plaid and Fly Trap itself can never be paused.
• Only one pause runs at a time. Confirming another catch during a pause records the catch without extending anything.
• Emergency release ends a pause early; you'll be asked for a short reason that's kept in your history. The companion unblocks within about a minute.

• Account → Download my data gives a JSON file with everything stored for you and a CSV of your purchases.
• Account → Delete account revokes linked banks and paired browsers, then removes your data and login. See details.

Support opens with accounts. Until then, the demo and these help pages cover how the product works.