SaveBackHow SaveBack works
SaveBack is an iPhone app that collects your online purchases in one place, then keeps track of the deadlines and refunds attached to them.
Store connections
Open Stores in the app and search for any retailer. Each store shows exactly what SaveBack can do with it, because stores differ a lot. Signing in to a store, reading your profile and reading your order history are three different permissions. A store that lets you sign in doesn't necessarily let any app see your orders.
- Ready to connect means a real authorization flow exists and is set up. You approve access on the provider's own page.
- Waiting on store approval means the store has a program that needs approval before SaveBack can use it (Amazon's, for example, doesn't cover U.S. orders yet).
- Import from email or receipts means the store doesn't share order history with apps, so SaveBack uses your order emails and receipts.
SaveBack never asks for your store password and never logs in to your store account behind the scenes.
Adding purchases
- Connect your email. Gmail or Outlook asks you to approve read access. SaveBack looks for order, shipping and refund messages and extracts the details. It doesn't keep full emails.
- Review the import. You see how many purchases were found, from which stores, possible duplicates and anything SaveBack couldn't read. Nothing is added until you confirm.
- Photograph or upload a receipt, or add it by hand in under a minute.
Returns, refunds and prices
Return deadlines come from the store, your receipt or you. SaveBack never invents one from the order date, and estimates are labeled. Reminders arrive as iPhone notifications 7 days, 2 days and on the day a return window closes. Refunds move through clear stages until you confirm the money arrived. For price tracking, you record prices you see and SaveBack works out what an adjustment could be worth, marked as an estimate until the store agrees.
Your account is yours alone
Each SaveBack account belongs to one person. Your purchases, receipts and refunds are private to you, and you can export or delete everything from the Account screen.