To participate in a study, you’ll need to connect the following data:
✅ Via browser extension installed on your laptop or desktop computer.
- Once you accept your invitation to join the study, you’ll see the following screen to specify the devices you use regularly:
A. Connect the browser extension
- Once devices are selected, click on the Next button, you’ll see the following screen to help you connect your data.
- The first step is to get the Via Browser extension. To do so, click the Connect button. Please note the extension is available on all popular browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera.
- You will get redirected to a page to add the extension.
On the new page, click Add to Chrome button. Please note that the button may show a different browser name for other browsers, however the steps are the same.
Click Add extension option.
The extension will automatically be included on your browsers’ list of extensions. Select the Via extension and you'll be routed to the Via Dashboard at https://joinvia.app/Dashboard.
B. Connect financial data - bank account(s) and/or credit card(s)
On the Financial Data screen, click Create button to connect.
Enter First name, Last name details and select Create button to get started with your financial profile. Please note that this email needs to be a personal email address and NOT a work email address
To connect an account, Click on (+) button.
Select financial institution and click on SIGN IN button to connect your account. Log into your account.
Repeat steps 7-10 to connect to as many bank account(s) and/or credit card account(s) as you would like.
Once done with connecting your all the desired account(s), select Next button.
C. Get online shopping order history
To connect Walmart, select Get history button.
After logging in to your Walmart account, click on Extract button.
Select Next button in the Walmart connect screen.
To connect Kroger, select Get history button.
After logging in to your Kroger account, click on Extract button.
Select Next button in the Kroger connect screen.
To connect Amazon, select Get history button.
After logging in to your Amazon account, click on Extract button.
Select Ok button to download the csv file.
After you're done, go back to your desktop/laptop browser and click All done!
Click on Upload button in the via dashboard screen and select the downloaded amazon csv file.
You’re done uploading the file!
