How to track Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria transactions automatically

Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria already texts you every time money moves. PennyWise reads those messages on your phone and builds your spending record from them — no manual entry, no bank login, nothing leaves the device.

What PennyWise reads from your Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria messages
SMS from StanChart
Credit Alert! Acct:xxxxxx, Amt:NGN1000.00, Desc:JANE DOE 100000000000000000000000000000TEST I, Date:2026-08-24, Bal:NGN1500000.00
Read on your phone — nothing sent anywhere
+₦1,000.00
Money in
Merchant
JANE DOE 100000000000000000000000000000TEST I
Account
Balance after
₦1,500,000.00

A real Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria message format, run through the same parser that ships in the app. Try it on your own message in the parser tool.

How it works

  1. Install PennyWise and grant SMS permission. That permission is the whole product — it is how the app sees your Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria alerts.
  2. PennyWise scans the Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria messages already on your phone and back-fills your transaction history in seconds.
  3. Every new Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria alert is picked up as it arrives and categorised automatically. Budgets and spending trends update on their own.

Why not just use a bank-login app?

Apps that aggregate accounts ask for your net-banking or account credentials and hold your transaction history on their servers. PennyWise asks for neither. It has no account system, makes no network calls to read your money, and its full source is published under AGPL-3.0 so the claim is checkable rather than promised.

Common questions

Does PennyWise work with Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria?

Yes. Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria is one of 157 banks and payment services PennyWise recognises. Transaction alerts from Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria are detected automatically and turned into categorised transactions in NGN.

Do I have to type my Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria transactions in by hand?

No. PennyWise reads the transaction SMS Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria already sends you and creates the entry itself — amount, merchant, date, account and running balance where the message includes it.

Does PennyWise need my Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria net-banking login or password?

Never. PennyWise has no login to your bank and no connection to Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria at all. It only reads the SMS already sitting on your phone, which is why it needs SMS permission and nothing else.

Is my Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria transaction data sent anywhere?

No. Parsing runs entirely on your device. There is no server, no account and no analytics on your financial data, and the source code is public so this can be verified.

What if a message from Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria is read incorrectly?

You can paste the message into the parser tool on this site to see exactly what PennyWise extracts, and report it in one click if it is wrong. Parser fixes ship in the next release.

Other banks PennyWise supports in Nigeria

9 supported in Nigeria — see them all.

PennyWise is a free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) expense tracker. Bank SMS are parsed entirely on your device — nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create. Browse all supported banks.