October 6th, 2009
Personalized Coupon Recommendations @ MoneyStrands
MoneyStrands, a personal money management website, teams up with Savings.com, an online coupon destination, to bring the first personalized coupon recommendation feature of its kind to consumers through an online personal finance tool. MoneyStrands’ new partnership with Savings.com unites the two golden rules of good personal finance: money management and smart savings. Like peanut butter and jelly, the two just go hand-in-hand, and MoneyStrand’s new coupon recommendation widget provides users with saving opportunities for the items on their weekly shopping list, proving that frugal spending can be part of your daily financial tune-up.
Users get their coupon recommendations in the Special Offers widget under the “Just For Me” tab on MoneyStrands. The coupons are uniquely picked for consumers by filtering the best deals from Savings.com according to their particular spending habits as tracked by MoneyStrands. Often, your coupons will cater to your highest spending categories, so you can save the most on areas where you spend the most. As an added bonus, you get to see what Savings.com’s community of deal-hunters voted on as the best deals so you can identify which coupons other consumers found most valuable.
The old tradition of coupon-cutting has evolved into this trendy new way to click-to-save, and this feature could put MoneyStrands ahead of other personal finance tools like Quicken or Mint. Mint offers a similar feature that suggests personal finance products like credit cards or CDs, but you have to fill out a profile to get product suggestions while MoneyStrand’s platform presents you the coupons most relevant to your everyday shopping patterns every time you log in. The recommendations change as your spending habits change and there are never any forms to update. Now when you go to see your finances at a glance, you can see how to budget with what you have and save on what you shop for most.
