Plaid VS Bench

Plaid Reviews

Bench Reviews

Plaid mentions (78)

• Can someone's Venmo/PayPal balance be approved to show up in a 3rd party app?

  Oh this is a https://plaid.com/ use case I think. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Need help finding simulation business bank accounts + credit cards

  My company made a financial dashboard for small businesses that aggregates information from financial institutions into a simplified view. The problem I need to solve: our only way of showing what it looks like when in use, is by connecting our own bank accounts + credit cards, but of course that exposes our personal info. I'd like to setup a demo account using fake financial data that simulates a real world... Source: 10 months ago

• Need A Solution to Amex Business Credit Card Data

  I have been looking into this and found Plaid, Yodlee, and Flinks. I am not 100% if any of these will work. Source: 11 months ago

• (Canada) Does anyone know of an API service that will users to connect with their personal bank and return things like their bank feed?

  Yeah I fully expect to pay, but I am sure there are companies that do this. It's simply reading data, I am not touching anything within the user's bank account. Places like Australia are quite big on open banking I believe, that allows, with proper verification, to access bank account information. I've just found one company plaid.com, it doesn't have all the institutions I was hoping for but the majority of big... Source: 11 months ago

• Intuits Mint is garbage this year, need other recs for tracking expenses.

  Switching platforms won't help. Every money visualization app on the market uses plaid to fetch their data, so every app will have the same data quality issues. Source: 11 months ago

Bench mentions (9)

• Which Accounting Program Should I use for LOTS of Online Sales through Amazon? Xero, Wave, or Quickbooks???

  I used bench.co for my accounting when I ran my amazon business. Source: over 1 year ago

• What business do you run?

  It's rare we decide to go up against someone that's already established and has all the pieces to begin with. For example, we recently put off venturing into the book-keeping space because Bench has already been crushing it and has hundreds of millions in venture funding behind them; we weren't willing to allocate the required resources to make much of a dent. Source: about 2 years ago

• Curious how much PPP your neighbor got?

  To prove worker protection expenditures you'll need to provide: Copy of invoices, orders, or purchase orders. Receipts, cancelled checks, or account statements verifying those eligible payments.Feb 21, 2021 Https://bench.co › blog › operations Documents Needed for PPP Loan Forgiveness | Bench Accounting. Source: over 2 years ago

• Accounting for personal/family expenses

  I've heard of this service (bench.co) for small businesses. They may be able to do it for you and your family? Source: over 2 years ago

• [Restaurant/Cafe owners] Do you do your book-keeping yourselves or is it a good idea to outsource it?

  Gotcha , so I'm in the process of building an online service which provides book-keeping , something like bench.co but specifically for restaurants and cafes. (and ofc at a better price and additional services / KPIs) . So , do let me know if you're interested . I'll make sure to update you once the essentials are up and running. :). Source: almost 3 years ago