Avoid MFA every single time, by using “remember this device” feature

Kalkrish

Currently, many institution connections require MFA every single time. The problem does NOT appear to be with the institution, because other aggregators do not have the same issue with the same accounts in the same institutions. One possibility that has been suggested is to use the “remember this device” feature that is available in most institution web interfaces. Please investigate this option.

antigravitas

+1 to this. I am having the same problem and would v much like to be able to tell my bank to trust connections coming from Simplifi, just as I can tell it to trust a specific browser on a specific computer.

Tim F

+1. I'm removing Venmo from Simplifi because of this. If this were happening on my bank account then there is no way that I'd use Simplifi.

SRC54

Added my vote because of AmEx card.  I have disconnected it from Online Banking and put the card away. Also suggest people complain to the companies.

randominseattle

+1 for Venmo

RobWilk

This does not happen on my accounts (it was for a while with Chase, but that stopped).  I think this may be a related problem as this request: https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/3506/use-oauth-apis-everywhere-they-are-available-chase-bank-of-america-etc which also complained about frequent MFA.

Zsawaged

adding my vote to this

EL1234

I have this problem with my Kohls credit card

Bmorse100

This only happens for me with Venmo, but it is very annoying.

RecursiveDimension

M1 Finance is having this problem as well in Simplifi. Temporary thing I did was to turn off MFA. It isn't ideal, but I'm hoping something will get fixed on Simplifi's end to address MFA in a user friendly way.

shawnt

+1 for me as well. It only happens with a couple of accounts, and it doesn't happen every time I log in to Simplifi, but maybe after a day or so it requires two-factor code again.

CBlazick

+1 for me. Venmo had my Mint saved as a Remembered Device. Dunno if it would help with my Carmax

Rex Parsons

This is a no brainer. Come on, Simplifi!

kroher

+1 venmo

mordotz

Moved from Mint to try Simplifi and this has been the most frustrating missing piece that I miss.

Dave5150

Virginia 529 is doing this as well.

Alex Dean

Simplifi, please resolve this!! Venmo allows you to remember devices, and that avoids the constant MFA. Venmo transactions are a necessary part of many people’s day to day spending.

Zsawaged

Please resolve this for Venmo already!

JerTech

This would be great for HSA Bank as well.

rbw

Mint knew how to click "Remember this device" with Venmo in 2019. My Venmo account.venmo.com/settings/security page still shows the "device" it used:

Instead, I now have 9 emails from Venmo in the last week because Simplifi is spamming it with my username/password multiple times per day:

My retirement accounts at TIAA have the same issue. I guess I will disable Venmo and TIAA in Simplifi, like others in this thread, but Simplifi is broken for me in either case.

This issue has been open for over 2 years, and there is a simple fix, but Simplifi's only recommendation is to disable 2FA on affected accounts (example, example) 🙃. Very bad look!

EL1234

My american express account started doing this in the last week or so. It's pretty annoying!