Allowance
The spend control layer for AI agents
About Allowance
Allowance lets AI agents make purchases on a user’s behalf without ever exposing your real card number. Users approve purchases directly from their iPhone with customizable controls like spending limits, merchant restrictions, and expiration windows. Once approved, Allowance generates scoped, one-time payment credentials designed specifically for that transaction. This enables AI agents to safely complete tasks like shopping, ordering food, booking reservations, or purchasing tickets while keeping humans in control of every payment.
Public traction evidence
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- Instagram
The future of payments is here. I’m here to make it easy and safe. 🤖🚀
The future of payments is here. I’m here to make it easy and safe. 🤖🚀
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Billions of hours of human effort go into navigating checkout flows every year. Allowance is changing this — just say what you want and AI agents handle checkout with spend-limited, one-time virtual cards. Quote Y Combinator @ycombinator · May 22 Allowance (@useallowance) lets AI agents safely make purchases using one-time virtual cards with built-in guardrails for things like travel booking, price tracking, reservations, and e-commerce checkout. Congrats on the launch, @dasmersingh! https:// ycombinator.com/launches/QS4-a llowance-virtual-cards-for-ai-agents …
Billions of hours of human effort go into navigating checkout flows every year. Allowance is changing this — just say what you want and AI agents handle checkout with spend-limited, one-time virtual cards. Quote Y Combinator @ycombinator · May 22 Allowance (@useallowance) lets...
- LinkedIn
Allowance (YC P26) reposted this Dasmer S. 4d Report this post Ever paused at checkout trying to remember which of your credit cards would earn the most at that specific merchant?
Allowance (YC P26) reposted this Dasmer S. 4d Report this post Ever paused at checkout trying to remember which of your credit cards would earn the most at that specific merchant? That little calculation can pay off, but it is one more thing to manage, especially as agents...
- LinkedIn
Allowance (YC P26) reposted this Dasmer S. 1w Report this post Ever hand over your credit card number to a merchant over the phone or on an unfamiliar website only to worry it migh
Allowance (YC P26) reposted this Dasmer S. 1w Report this post Ever hand over your credit card number to a merchant over the phone or on an unfamiliar website only to worry it might be misused and charged again later? This ends now. Today, Allowance is introducing One-Time...
- LinkedIn
Allowance (YC P26) reposted this Dasmer S. 2w Report this post The official Allowance ChatGPT plugin went live today! Connect it once and use Allowance (YC P26) across OpenAI's sui
Allowance (YC P26) reposted this Dasmer S. 2w Report this post The official Allowance ChatGPT plugin went live today! Connect it once and use Allowance (YC P26) across OpenAI's suite of product (ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, or Codex) to make subscribe to price drops, order food and...
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Come out to Wobbles Cafe in the East Village to listen in on Agentic Workflows by two YC Venmo alums.
Come out to Wobbles Cafe in the East Village to listen in on Agentic Workflows by two YC Venmo alums. Hosted by @iqramband @jellyvideochats https://t.co/ngqTSsOk63
- LinkedIn
Allowance (YC P26) reposted this Dasmer S. 2w Report this post One week in, new Claude users already loving the Allowance connector. The overwhelming feedback: Allowance is much ea
Allowance (YC P26) reposted this Dasmer S. 2w Report this post One week in, new Claude users already loving the Allowance connector. The overwhelming feedback: Allowance is much easier to set up this way. It’s never been simpler to let your AI make secure purchases on your...
- Instagram
This week, Allowance launched Chat tab. No technical set up required to make agentic purchases. Describe what you want to buy, and an AI agent can complete the purchase for you—with spend limits, merchant controls, and approvals built in. 🚀
This week, Allowance launched Chat tab. No technical set up required to make agentic purchases. Describe what you want to buy, and an AI agent can complete the purchase for you—with spend limits, merchant controls, and approvals built in. 🚀