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Give your AI a virtual card with limits.
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Joined February 2026
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The future of payments is here.
I'm here to make it easy and safe. 🤖🚀
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!
ycombinator.com/launches/QS4…
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
Allowance is now live in iMessage!
Send a shopping request, photo, or product link to +1 (917) 335-1303. The more you share, the better @useallowance gets. It uses the details from your conversation to understand what you’re looking for and refine results as you go.
As always, Allowance completes the purchase without ever sharing your real card number.
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
Approve Allowance requests on the new native Android app! Launched today and available now 🚀
useallowance.com/blog/allowa…
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
The $20K Card He Wouldn't Give an Agent: Allowance and Scoped Spend for AI Commerce
Shoal Signal Ep. 15 with @dasmersingh, Founder & CEO at @useallowance (YC '26), hosted by @zaddycoin
We cover the $20K card he wouldn't give an agent, which purchases go agentic first, why he builds on card rails not x402, and how a neutral wallet survives Visa and Stripe.
0:00 The $20K card an agent can't have
1:18 Intro and the agentic commerce case
2:21 His years at Cash App and Block
3:19 How parents actually feel safe
5:30 The OpenClaw moment and starting Allowance
9:13 Why agentic commerce wins
12:19 Developers buy first, consumers later
14:07 Clothes last, scarce tickets first
16:45 What Allowance actually is
19:53 Card rails vs new agent protocols
27:50 Handling websites that change
29:11 Staying defensible against Visa and Stripe
33:11 Will agents take jobs?
37:47 The missing piece: trust and coordination
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
Ever pause at checkout, trying to remember which card earns the most at a given merchant?
Today, we’re launching Rewards Optimization in @useallowance.
At approval, it picks the best eligible card from your wallet. You can always override.
Turn it on: useallowance.com/blog/introd…
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
Ever hand over your credit card number over the phone or on an unfamiliar website... then wonder if it might be misused and charged again later? That ends today.
Introducing One-Time Cards from @useallowance.
Create a new card number for a single purchase, set a maximum amount and optionally lock it to a specific merchant. After it's used, the number is done.
It's connected to your existing credit cards, so you keep earning the same rewards and benefits without exposing your real card number.
A card number shouldn't be a permanent permission.
Learn more: useallowance.com/blog/introd…
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
Codex is on a tear (Codex WAUs just grew to 10M, almost 2x in a week!).
With GPT-5.6, Codex browser use advanced what was already best in class to a tool that enables @useallowance checkouts to be super reliable and fast.
See the full post by @OpenAI on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/posts/gpt-56-an…
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
Allowance on web just launched today!
Approve agent purchases from your desktop, with biometric verification on every approval.
useallowance.com/blog/allowa…
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
The Allowance ChatGPT plugin went live today!
Connect it once and @useallowance across @OpenAI's suite of product (@ChatGPTapp , ChatGPT Work, or Codex) to make subscribe to price drops, order food and make autonomous purchases, always with your approval.
useallowance.com/blog/allowa…
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
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 behalf. useallowance.com/blog/allowa…
Our only cookie stuffing happens at the bakery. 🍪
The first 100 people to complete a purchase with Allowance this weekend get a free box of cookies shipped to their door.
No hidden tabs. No swapped codes. Just actual cookies.
useallowance.com/real-cookie…
Allowance is now a first-party connector on chat.dev, a platform for running Codex and Claude agents in the cloud 24/7.
This means agents on chat.dev can securely request purchase approval, receive one-time agentic virtual cards, and complete purchases without ever having to open your laptop.
Huge shoutout to @mmirman for building an awesome product!
An example use case:
"Every Monday, analyze my LinkedIn & YouTube history. Find a niche product under $20 that I haven't reviewed. Buy it with Allowance. Create a short review video, publish it, and call me with last week's analytics and this week's pick."
Use it now here: chat.dev/share/recipe/nKNEky…
Allowance is now an official @claudeai connector!
Giving Claude the ability to securely make purchases has never been easier ⚡️ Connect it now.
Ordering makeup @ColourPopCo has never been easier 🪄💅
Download Allowance now and get your agent ordering for you: apps.apple.com/us/app/allowa…
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
Allowance: the spend-control layer for AI agents. Generates scoped, one-time card credentials so an agent can shop, order food, or book travel for you, without ever touching your real card number. You approve every purchase from your phone.
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This week, Allowance launched Chat tab.
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.
No Mac Mini, MCP or OpenClaw setup required.
Agentic commerce is becoming easier than ever ⚡️
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
Just a few weeks ago, @OpenAI launched GPT Realtime Whisper, its frontier low-latency speech-to-text model.
With today's update, GPT Realtime Whisper powers voice commerce in @useallowance.
Talk to an AI. It buys for you.
The dawn of conversational commerce is here. ⚡
Allowance (YC P26) retweeted
Introducing Chat tab: Make purchases immediately by talking to an AI agent in Allowance Chat.
You can always still connect via CLI or MCP if you want to connect @useallowance to Codex, OpenClaw or your favorite desktop agent.
Skip the fric, use Allowance.
apps.apple.com/us/app/allowa…
