How-to guide

Manage your
subscriptions.

Talli reads your transaction history and proposes recurring payments it has found. Accept the ones you want to track, dismiss the rest, and keep the list lean as your subscriptions change.

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01

Where the suggestions come from

Whenever you import transactions, Talli scans for repeating payees with consistent amounts and cadence. Stable patterns — Spotify every month, a gym every fortnight — surface on the dashboard as Suggested recurring payments. Anything that's spent on once or twice, or whose amount jumps around, is ignored.

Suggested recurring payments

Detected from your transaction history. One click to set up.

  • Spotify

    Monthly on the 8th · seen 6 times ▸

    −$11.99Add
  • Netflix

    Monthly on the 14th · seen 9 times ▸

    −$22.99Add
  • Gym Membership

    Every 2 weeks · seen 5 times ▸

    −$28.00Add
Dashboard — Suggested recurring payments, surfaced from your transaction history.

Each row shows the cadence and how many times Talli has seen the payee. Click seen N times to inspect the individual transactions Talli matched on — useful for sanity-checking that a suggestion really is the same recurring charge and not a one-off that happened to repeat.

Spotify

Monthly on the 8th · seen 6 times ▾

−$11.99Add
  • Apr 8 2026SPOTIFY P12345−$11.99
  • Mar 8 2026SPOTIFY P12345−$11.99
  • Feb 8 2026SPOTIFY P12345−$11.99
  • Jan 8 2026SPOTIFY P12345−$11.99
  • Dec 8 2025SPOTIFY USA−$11.99
  • Nov 8 2025SPOTIFY USA−$11.99
Clicking seen 6 times opens the underlying transactions Talli matched against.

In the example above, the older transactions surfaced under a different raw payee (SPOTIFY USA vs SPOTIFY P12345) but Talli grouped them on the same normalised payee key, so the suggestion still fires.

02

Adding a detected subscription

Click Add on a suggestion. The recurring slide-over opens, pre-filled with the payee, amount, cadence, account, and a guessed category (if the payee matches a canonical name like Music / Spotify / iTunes). You can tweak any field before saving.

New recurring schedule

Pre-filled from a suggestion · review before saving

Account*

Everyday — Bank of Marketing

Category*

Entertainment / Music / Spotify / iTunes

Payee*

Spotify

Amount*

$11.99Outflow

Schedule

WeeklyMonthlyYearlyEvery N days

Day of month*

8

Start date*

2026-06-08

Notes

Family plan — billed monthly
CancelSave schedule
Recurring slide-over — full form, pre-filled from a suggestion. Every field is editable before you save.
On save, Talli also retroactively categorises any historical transactions whose payee matches the new schedule and that don't already have a category. So past Spotify rows on your statements get tagged in the same request — no need to go back and fix them by hand.

The schedule now appears under Upcoming payments on the dashboard, projected forward for the rest of the month.

03

Editing a saved schedule

Find the schedule under Upcoming payments and click Edit. The slide-over reopens with the current values. Change the amount when a subscription's price rises, swap the category to roll it into a different part of your budget, or shift the cadence if the billing date drifts.

Already-generated transactions stay as they were — edits only affect future runs.

04

Save, Cancel, Cancel schedule, Delete — what each one does

When you open an existing schedule for edit, the slide-over footer offers four actions. They overlap in wording but behave very differently — use the one that matches what you actually mean.

Spotify

Monthly on the 8th · Active

Delete
Cancel scheduleCancelSave changes
Editing a saved schedule — four distinct actions in the slide-over footer.
  • Save changes — commits any field edits (amount, cadence, category, account, notes) and reschedules the next run if you moved the cadence or start date. Already-generated transactions stay untouched; only future runs use the new values. Use this when a subscription's price changes or you want to re-route it through a different category.
  • Cancel — discards your edits and closes the slide-over without writing anything. Same as hitting the × in the corner. Use this when you opened the slide-over by mistake or changed your mind mid-edit.
  • Cancel schedule — stops the schedule from generating any more transactions and marks its status as Canceled. Past transactions it generated are preserved with their full history. The row disappears from Upcoming payments but isn't deleted — admin export still sees it. Use this when you actually end a subscription with the provider.
  • Delete — hard-removes the schedule row entirely. Past transactions survive (their recurring_transaction_id is nulled out so the history isn't broken), but the schedule itself is gone for good. Use this only when you created the schedule by mistake. For a real cancellation, prefer Cancel schedule — it leaves an audit trail.
None of these tell the merchant anything. You still need to cancel the subscription with the provider — Talli just stops projecting it forward.

Separately, Dismiss (the × on a suggestion row before it becomes a schedule) tells Talli to stop proposing the payee. It doesn't touch transactions and doesn't create or delete a schedule — the suggestion just moves into the dismissed list.

05

Bringing back a dismissed suggestion

The Upcoming payments card on the dashboard does double duty: it lists every active schedule projected forward, and tucks dismissed suggestions in a disclosure at the bottom. Dismissed by accident or changed your mind? Open the card, click Show dismissed suggestions, and tap Restore.

Upcoming payments

May 2026 · projected from your schedules

+ Add
  1. Spotify

    Entertainment · Monthly · Active

    −$11.99
  2. Netflix

    Entertainment · Monthly · Active

    −$22.99

Hide dismissed suggestions (1) ▾

  • AfterPay — Cotton OnRestore
Upcoming payments card — active schedules listed by next run, with dismissed suggestions tucked at the bottom.

Restoring a suggestion doesn't create a schedule — it just puts the row back into Suggested recurring payments so you can review and Add it properly.

06

Rules of thumb

Worth adding as a schedule

  • Anything billed on a predictable cadence: streaming, phone, internet, gym, software seats, insurance.
  • Income that arrives on a schedule — Talli treats inflows the same way as outflows.
  • Yearly renewals you want surfaced ahead of time. Set the cadence to Yearly with the month you want to be reminded.

Better to dismiss

  • One-off bookings that happened to land twice in a row.
  • Variable utility bills where the amount shifts month to month — Talli's projection won't be useful.
  • Friends or family Talli misread as a recurring payee.

END

Accept what's stable, dismiss what's noise, and let the Upcoming payments card surface what's next. Edit when prices shift; cancel when the subscription actually ends.