Kevin William David

Birch - Find the best credit card for your spending.

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Kevin William David
Helps users manage their rewards programs and points across multiple credit cards and accounts. Birch plugs into a bank account, looks at a user’s spending habits and recommends what kinds of cards they should sign up for, or how they should spend their money in order to maximize their point returns. For example, Birch might recommend that a user buys products with a specific card at a store like Macy’s in order to get the most points.
Alex Cohen
@kwdinc Thanks Kevin!
Stas Rudy
@kwdinc Does it work in any country?
Alex Cohen
@sstass @kwdinc Only in the US right now. Where are you from?
Charley Ma
Congrats on launching at Disrupt yesterday! What else do you guys have planned on the roadmap into the next year in terms of larger features?
Alex Cohen
@charleyma Hey Charley! Next on our list is obviously working out some of the kinks around transactions and recommendations, adding more cards and then in app budgeting and notifications about where you spend and shop. Hopefully we can goals up and going soon and we will be rolling that out in batches!
Matt Tsymbal
does it works out from USA?
Alex Cohen
@m3tthew Hey Matt, we only support US banks at this time
Mitch
Is there any way to change the type of credit card that you selected when you first connected accounts? I accidentally set my Chase Sapphire as a Chase United Mileage Plus card.
Alex Cohen
@sleumasm Hey Mitch, if you could chat us in app via the help bubble on the right, we can go in and change that for you. Changing the cards you selected as well as changing reward preferences are the next two things on our priority to add to the profile page.
Alex Cohen
@sleumasm Hey Mitch - we added support for this yesterday. Under your profile there is an option choose the cards you have linked. Thanks!
Alex Cohen
@sleumasm Hey Mitch! Just wanted to drop you a quick note and let you know we launched V2 yesterday. Would love to hear what you think!
Alex Cohen
Hey everyone! Just a quick update. There are some bugs we are working out such as A. Removing your linked accounts, B. Linking a Chase account (their security auth isn't working right now) C. Deleting Accounts and some other improvements. I really appreciate all the feedback and you guys who have tried it out have been amazing. Please let me know how we can improve and thanks for working with us through the bugs
Matthew TW Huang
Does this consider sign up bonuses? Also, does this current account for best value flights based on airlines and/or transfer possibilities? I love this idea and there are so many little details that can be added.
Alex Cohen
@matthewtwhuang Hey Matt! Yes it does to both of your questions. From a sign up bonus perspective we include the $$ amount of the sign up bonus. If the sign up bonus is in points or miles, we convert that to a $ amount using millions of actual reward values. That's also how we value non cash back rewards
Alex Cohen
@matthewtwhuang And thank you! Would love to hear more of the little details so we can add them to the roadmap :)
Al Bentley
Nice work guys, stoked to see you getting the word out!
Alex Cohen
@al__bentley Thanks man! Excited to finally be launched!
Kevin Yun
Just signed up and excited to check this out! In the market for a new card at the moment
Alex Cohen
@kevinyun Awesome! Let us know what you think!
Alex Cohen
@kevinyun Hey Kevin! Just wanted to let you know we launched V2 of Birch yesterday!
Gashian Cotton
this looks cool