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by TechDebtDevin 498 days ago
.. What are these sms trails? Ive never heard of this.
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Some banks allow setting up alerts for transactions of more than a threshold. It's possible to set this threshold to a very low value thus getting all transactions logged as texts.

I am not sure how this system handles US tips though; the notification may come in before the tips are added and the CC transaction is finalized.

Notification for transactions being parsed or scrapped for data