VibeCheckout: The Angel On Your Shoulder At The Checkout

VibeCheck your checkout and skip the post-purchase regret. Pick your level of help: a pause, a cooling-off wait or a shop lock.

😇 The angel on your shoulder at the checkout. Online checkouts are built to keep you moving through them FAST and over the years, this has meant people impulse-spend more than they planned. VibeCheckout gives you back a moment to think before you buy. When you reach an online checkout, a short pause covers the page with a finding from psychology research and one question. Then it's your call: buy it, or walk away. No flashing sale banners, no "ends tonight" timers, just you, and a strategically placed pause that you chose to help you determine whether you actually want the thing... 🤔 HOW IT WORKS 1. Sign up at vibecheckout.com.au and add a goal. A holiday, a gadget, an emergency fund or create your own. Pick your pause message style and how much help you want. 2. Add the VibeCheckout extension to Chrome and sign in. It runs quietly in the background while you shop. 3. At a checkout, the pause covers the page. You'll see a little psychology about what drives us to spend, one question, and two choices. Depending on your chosen pause style, you'll see your goal too. It stays until you make a choice. 4. Choose to buy, and your checkout carries on. Choose to walk away, and we close the tab for you. The amount you didn't spend counts straight away as saved on your dashboard. If you opt for more help, there will be more hurdles in the way of you and the purchase, all configurable by you. 🛟 HOW MUCH HELP DO YOU WANT? Some days a nudge is plenty. Some days you need a minute to cool off. And some days you need someone to hold your card. Choose your level when you sign up and change it any time in Settings. 🟢 Low (the default): A pause at the checkout, then you decide to exit or continue to checkout. 🟡 Medium: A pause at the checkout and a cooling-off period of your choice. If you decide to carry on, a 60-second, 2-minute or 5-minute countdown runs before you can. A countdown on your side, for once. Walking away is never held back. 🔴 High: Stronger help, including online shops on lockdown. You get the pause and the cooling-off countdown. If you still carry on, that shop locks: the whole shop or just its checkout, for 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days or a time you set. Walking away never locks anything. Need back in? Wait out a slow exit you chose earlier, or unlock that one shop in Settings straight away. Either way, it opens for an hour. Every pause, at every level, opens with a short finding from psychology research, told your way based on your selection: goal, emotion, social, reward, or a mix of all four. 🫵 WHAT YOU GET - A pause right before you pay, in the style that works for you. - A dashboard for your goals and checkout history, and what you've saved by walking away. - A day streak on your dashboard, so you can watch your run grow. - No lectures. Buying things is fine. Buying on autopilot is what the pause is for. 📜 YOUR RULES. YOUR WAY. Paying bills or buying groceries? Add those sites to 'Sites to skip' in Settings and VibeCheckout stays out of the way. Bought it later anyway? Turn on purchase follow-up (it's optional) and VibeCheckout can take that amount back off your saved total, so your numbers stay honest. 🔒 PRIVACY The extension never reads what you type into forms, including card numbers and passwords. Shop locks are checked inside your browser. No ads. We never sell your data. Privacy Policy: https://vibecheckout.com.au/privacy 👑 MEMBERSHIP The extension is free to add. The pauses need a VibeCheckout account and a paid membership, which starts with a 30-day free trial. No card needed for the trial: you only add one if you choose a plan. You can cancel anytime online in a few clicks. We made it easy on purpose: we don’t want to be one more thing you pay for and don’t use. Plans and prices: https://vibecheckout.com.au/pricing US$1 of every membership goes to funding affordable housing initiatives. 💡 GOOD TO KNOW On Low and Medium, you decide every time whether to buy or walk away. High goes further and locks a shop after you carry on, but you set the rules and there's always a way back in. It works in Chrome while the extension is installed. Some sites never lock, such as payment providers and government sites. Works in Chrome on a computer. Your dashboard is a website, so you can check your goals on your phone. [ MOBILE APP - COMING SOON ] VibeCheckout helps you pause and reflect before you spend. It doesn't give financial, investment, credit or tax advice, and nothing in it takes account of your full financial situation. The research findings shown in pauses are general information about how people tend to behave based on academic literature, not advice about you. ❓ QUESTIONS? 📧 Say hello: hello@vibecheckout.com.au 🌐 https://vibecheckout.com.au