How would you like to see a dashboard of your spending at Costco?
It includes total spent, price increases, most purchased items, and more.
The dashboard is just an HTML file on your computer and there's a script you can run in the Chrome browser to download your Costco receipts from the Costco website. It's not hard and takes just a few minutes.
Instructions
There are two parts to this tool:
- The receipt downloader
- The dashboard
Receipt Downloader
The receipt downloader is a script you can access here and you will need to copy the raw Javascript.
Then, go to Costco Order Status, it may ask you to log in. If you are already logged in, it'll show you the Costco Orders & Purchases page.
Right click and choose Inspect. In the new window that appears, you will need to select Console and then paste in the code you copied for the receipt downloader.
It may warn you and say “Warning: Don't paste code into the DevTools Console that you don't understand or haven't reviewed yourself. This could allow attackers to steal your identity or take control of your computer. Please type ‘allow pasting' below and press Enter to allow pasting.”
This is a fair warning and I trusted the code so I allowed pasting. If you are concerned, you can paste the code into ChatGPT and ask if it is safe to run. ChatGPT said it doesn't look malicious and then explains what it does step by step, which gave me confidence that it's safe.
When the code finishes running, it downloads a JSON file to your desktop. This file contains all of your Costco warehouse receipts.
Dashboard
The Dashboard is simply an HTML file that you download from here. Again, you can stick it into ChatGPT to ensure it's no malicious.
Rename the file to HTML and open it in a browser. In the top right, load the receipts file you just created:
Wait a few seconds for it to load and it'll show you just how much you've spent at Costco and on what.
Enjoy!
Enhanced Costco Analyzer
If you liked the previous dashboard, another redditor took it even further with their analysis. It includes total refunds, estimated Executive rewards, etc.
- Their Receipt Downloader
- Their Enhanced Dashboard
👏 Thank You
I didn't make any of this, it was a collaborative effort by several users in the r/Costco subreddit as you can see here. I just wanted to share it with you because I thought it was fun.
- u/ikeee for the original idea
- v/ViKoToMo for putting instructions together
- u/webrender for a screenshare with instructions
