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hdad
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Auto notify account is Inactive?

Is there an app or some other way to keep track if a credit card hasn't been used in x months? 

I have 19 cards, a number of which are older cards that don't have features my newer cards have, but I want to keep these old cards to keep my oldest/ average account age up. 

So, to make my life easier, I'm hoping there is a way to get a notification if i haven't used a card in like 5 months, so I can make a small charge on it, to prevent the account being closed due to inactivity. 

Is there an app that does this? Do any cards have this as an available notification option? 

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Re: Auto notify account is Inactive?


@hdad wrote:

Is there an app or some other way to keep track if a credit card hasn't been used in x months? 

I have 19 cards, a number of which are older cards that don't have features my newer cards have, but I want to keep these old cards to keep my oldest/ average account age up. 

So, to make my life easier, I'm hoping there is a way to get a notification if i haven't used a card in like 5 months, so I can make a small charge on it, to prevent the account being closed due to inactivity. 

Is there an app that does this? Do any cards have this as an available notification option? 


So you would have to load the cards on to the app, and either give the app access to all your credit card accounts, or manually input when you use them.   Not sure that would be worth the work (manual) or risk (access)....

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KatzNDawgs
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Re: Auto notify account is Inactive?

I keep "budget" excel files where I make a new sheet the 1st and 15th as I update charges/payments etc, then new file each year so I can see historical trends. Anyhow, I currently have 20 cards and just look at the last paid date column to see when I might need to put new spend on rarely used card.

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