Hey everyone! 👋

I'm excited to share some major updates that I've been working on for the past few weeks.

Actual Budget Support - Our First Open Source Contribution! 🎉

Having automated bank sync support helped me truly experience the magic that Lunch Money had to offer. I recognise that there are many different personal finance apps that are building great experiences, but without the bank sync, they become a lot less accessible.

A few weeks ago, GoCardless stopped offering its free tier to new users, and focus only on businesses, which means a lot of individuals and families could no longer enjoy their budgeting apps as they used to. And that’s exactly what I’d love to change with Lunch Flow.

I have been a fan of Actual Budget’s for a long time! Even though it didn’t work for me due to a lack of multi-currency support. And when I reached out to the community offering Lunch Flow support as a GoCardless alternative, both the maintainers and the users were very welcoming!

After a lot of feedback and iteration with the community, and a few contributions to the project, I'm thrilled to announce that Lunch Flow now supports Actual Budget! While it’s through an import script, I’m looking forward to continually iterating on this experience and streamlining it even further with the Actual Budget team 😀

New Website Pages 🌟

Lunch Flow started as a Lunch Money add-on for supporting UK & EU banks, but over the past 13 months (time flies!), we grew to support multiple global open banking providers, and support multiple destinations as well, with the vision to be the open banking layer for all personal finance apps.

I’ve been iterating on the website to try and communicate that, and we now have:

1. individual pages for different destinations we connect with, like Actual Budget and our API.

2. Comparison pages against other banking providers, as many users often ask about that, like SimpleFin and GoCardless.

As always, I'd love your feedback on the new pages or the website in general! What do you think? Any suggestions for improvements?

Other Improvements 🛠️

Been working on a ton of improvements in the background, a few examples are:

• Added email notifications for Lunch Money token issues.

• Added a ‘relink’ button for Finverse connections where background sync is not supported due to 2FA being required.

• Added support for syncing Finverse connections to Google Sheets.

• Added support for manually reversing transaction amounts in Lunch Money (in case the bank was sending them the wrong way 😅)

• Fixed an issue with Sure syncing getting stuck if there are many transactions in the account.

• Fixed an issue where the ‘billing’ page was not accessible from the dashboard if any subscription payments were missed.

As always, I'm here to listen and improve. If you have any feedback on these new features or ideas for what to build next, I'd love to hear from you! 💬

Keep the suggestions coming - you're helping shape Lunch Flow's future! 🚀