Connecting a bank account is optional. When you choose to connect, you authorize us to use Plaid (a regulated financial-data aggregator) to fetch account information on your behalf. Plaid handles the secure connection; your bank credentials never touch our systems.
The connection is read-only by default. We can see balances, transactions, holder details, and institution metadata. We can't move money out of any linked account without your explicit, per-transaction approval.
You can disconnect any linked bank inside the app at any time. When you do, we call Plaid's removal endpoint to invalidate the access token and delete the cached data we have for that institution.
Balances, transactions, and account details come from your financial institution through Plaid and may be delayed, incomplete, or temporarily unavailable. Pending transactions may not appear, and a balance shown in Beaverise can differ from the one your bank shows. Always check your bank directly before a time-sensitive decision, such as avoiding an overdraft or confirming that a payment cleared.
Figures the app derives from that data, including safe-to-spend, runway, projected balances, and net worth, are estimates built on what we last received. They are not statements of your actual account balance and should not be treated as one.