Friday 24 November 2017

How banking apps can help you improve your financial habits

There’s little to almost no argument that smartphones have been one of the most influential inventions in human history. Their presence can be felt in every facet of daily life, especially in terms of communication, accessing the internet, shopping, access entertainment, and now how we bank.

In fact, their purchase and usage exceeds desktops and laptops, while continuing to accelerate, as they offer the perfect convenient and flexible platform, to access a variety of apps, which includes several financial apps. Banking apps have now made it easy to access your financial details from virtually anywhere. In fact, in the long run, they will help build up your financial habits.

Here is how the mobile banking apps can help improve and formulate your financial habits:

• Help organise your financial information and records: Banking apps are designed to access your financial information and records from a secured server through a secured channel. By knowing and accessing your financial information, and having a system that is easily accessible will save time and aggravation on your part.

• Direct deposit for your monthly payments: Do you have monthly payments to keep track of? Do you have debts that need to be paid on a fixed date? The app for banking services will help you make a direct deposit, thus saving time while making your funds work faster for you.

• Create automated saving plans: Saving plans are a great objective for both short term or long term financial goals. Through the app, you can easily make transfers to other financial products, such as another bank account or investment product. Once your monthly income has been deposited in your salary account, you can easily use the mobile banking apps to make the required transfer on the given date and get it deposited within a few minutes or dates. 

• Track your expenditures: Every transaction made through the app will be recorded in the app’s history. Through this process, it will help you be aware and prepare your expenditures. It will also help you identify potential areas which will help you reduce expenses. Over time, you can monitor your spending and slowly eliminate unnecessary expenditures.

• Help you save for loans: At some point in your time, you will need to apply for a loan. Developing a saving habit and a small source of the fund will be handy when applying for a loan. Over time, you can manage to save sufficient funds for a down payment or even emergency EMI repayments.

• Set up account alerts through the app: With the continuous in and out transactions, there is a high possibility that your account will have low or insufficient funds. This can lead to checking bouncing or low balance charges. However, through the app, you can set up notifications to a certain value which, when crossed, will instantly alert you. This way you know you would need to take alternate measures to prevent over-expenditures.

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