{"id":17,"date":"2026-07-27T18:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/getting-started-with-spenzaa-your-first-week\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:09:30","slug":"getting-started-with-spenzaa-your-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/getting-started-with-spenzaa-your-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Spenzaa: Your First Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first week with any budgeting app determines whether you keep using it. Here&#8217;s how to spend that week well with Spenzaa.<\/p>\n<h2>Day 1: Connect and let it learn<\/h2>\n<p>Link your accounts and let Spenzaa pull in your recent transaction history. The AI needs a little data to start categorizing accurately.<\/p>\n<h2>Day 2-3: Review the categories<\/h2>\n<p>Skim through how transactions were auto-categorized. Correct anything that&#8217;s off \u2014 the model learns from every correction.<\/p>\n<h2>Day 4-5: Set a budget that&#8217;s realistic<\/h2>\n<p>Base your first budget on what Spenzaa shows you actually spent last month, not what you wish you spent. You can tighten it later.<\/p>\n<h2>Day 6-7: Check your SpenzaBook summary<\/h2>\n<p>By the end of the week, your first SpenzaBook entry should give you a readable summary of where things stand \u2014 no spreadsheet required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short guide to setting up Spenzaa and getting real value out of it in your first seven days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-getting-started"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spenzaa.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}