From first link to first cancelled subscription usually takes under ten minutes.
Connect checking, savings and credit cards with a SimpleFIN Bridge token, or import a CSV/OFX statement from your bank. Access is read-only — Ledger can never move money.
Six months of transactions are pulled and tagged by merchant and category, so month one already has trends worth reading.
Repeat merchants are grouped into a subscription list with renewal dates and annualised cost.
Give each category a monthly limit. The dashboard tracks burn-down so you course-correct mid-month, not after.