More efficient option when you need to update all accounts at once. Maybe this could be integrated as a pull-down to refresh option in the mobile apps.
We looked hard at this and it will not work the way you'd want in Canada.
Plaid banks refresh quietly, but most Flinks banks (RBC, TD, Scotia, BMO, Tangerine, CIBC and others) ask for a code or an app approval on every live refresh, and if two of those fire at once the unanswered one can knock the connection out.
So a sync-all would refresh some banks and hand you a list of the rest to do one at a time, which is what the per-bank Sync already does. Syncs run on their own through the day, and those banks also get a nightly refresh without a code, so the per-bank button is really for "I know something landed in the last few hours." Pull-to-refresh on mobile, which re-checks what can be checked silently, is the version we may still add.
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team@waypointbudget
Oct 6
Hi @OptoGuy117
We looked hard at this and it will not work the way you'd want in Canada.
Plaid banks refresh quietly, but most Flinks banks (RBC, TD, Scotia, BMO, Tangerine, CIBC and others) ask for a code or an app approval on every live refresh, and if two of those fire at once the unanswered one can knock the connection out.
So a sync-all would refresh some banks and hand you a list of the rest to do one at a time, which is what the per-bank Sync already does. Syncs run on their own through the day, and those banks also get a nightly refresh without a code, so the per-bank button is really for "I know something landed in the last few hours." Pull-to-refresh on mobile, which re-checks what can be checked silently, is the version we may still add.