What is Financial Automation?
Financial automation can ensure bills are paid on time (including rent to your landlord, your credit card bill, and everything in between), income is immediately available, and saving and investing happens, without having [...]
How to Set Up a Credit Freeze
To set up a freeze on your credit, you need to do it with each of the three major credit reporting agencies. There is no cost but their website may try to upsell [...]
Setup Automatic Minimum Payments for Your Debts
Set up automatic minimum payments to all your debts - either through transfers from a checking or savings account or through automatic bill pay. If you have a credit card that you don’t [...]
How to Setup Multi-factor Authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a great way to make your online accounts more secure. MFA requires a second piece of authentication beyond your password before allowing you to login to an account. [...]
Determine the Best Method to Payoff Your Debt
If you have multiple sources of debt, first consider if consolidating multiple debts into one makes sense for you. If you don’t consolidate or still have multiple sources after a partial debt consolidation, [...]
Fund Your Emergency Fund to Security Level
Fund your emergency fund account to the point where it can cover one to three full months of expenses. To determine your amount for one (or three) full months of expenses, use the [...]
Update Your Passwords
Your password manager will have specific instructions to begin adding your accounts and updating your passwords. At a minimum, take the time to update passwords at the following: Financial institutions (banks, credit card [...]
Choose Your Password Manager
PCMag has a great summary of their favorite 11 password managers for 2022. We'll give you one recommendation: LastPass. LastPass is the one we’re the most familiar with and it’s also the one [...]
How to Setup a Password Manager – Checklist
This task includes the following subtasks for getting set up and fully utilizing a password manager: Choose a password manager and then follow the prompts on that password manager’s site to get it [...]
Key Components of Online Security
There are a number of things you can do to protect your online accounts and data. The three things that are the most important and helpful for protecting your finances include: Password Managers [...]