A method for providing electronic purchase reminders includes: storing communication information and a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry corresponding to a processed payment transaction and including transaction data, a transaction date, and one of a plurality of category tags; storing, for each category tag, a recurring time period; identifying a subset of transaction data entries that includes a common category tag; identifying a most recent transaction data entry of the subset o based on the transaction date, where a difference between the transaction date included in the most recent transaction data entry and a present date is at least the recurring time period associated with the common category tag; generating a purchase recommendation based on the transaction data included in each transaction data entry in the subset; and transmitting the generated purchase recommendation to a computing device based on the communication information.