Monitor Your Fortnite Spending: A Guide to Tracking Your V-Buck Expenses

Fortnite is free, but its tempting skins can lead to significant V-Buck purchases. Keeping track of your spending is crucial to avoid unexpected financial surprises. Here's how to check your Fortnite expenditure.

Two methods exist: reviewing your Epic Games Store account and utilizing the Fortnite.gg website. Regularly monitoring your spending is advisable to prevent shock when reviewing your bank statements. The cumulative cost of seemingly small purchases can quickly escalate, as illustrated by a real-life example of a player unknowingly spending nearly $800 on Candy Crush over three months.

Method 1: Checking Your Epic Games Store Account

All V-Buck transactions are recorded in your Epic Games Store account, regardless of platform or payment method. Follow these steps:

1. Access the Epic Games Store website and log in.
2. Click your username (top right).
3. Select "Account," then "Transactions."
4. Scroll through your purchase history, clicking "Show More" as needed.
5. Identify V-Buck purchases (e.g., "5,000 V-Bucks"). Note the V-Buck amount and its currency equivalent.
6. Use a calculator to sum your total V-Bucks and currency spent.

Important Considerations: Free Epic Games Store games will appear in your transactions. V-Buck card redemptions might not display a dollar amount.

Method 2: Using Fortnite.gg

As highlighted by Dot Esports, Fortnite.gg offers a way to track your spending, though it requires manual input:

1. Go to Fortnite.gg and log in or create an account.
2. Navigate to "My Locker."
3. Manually add each purchased outfit and cosmetic item by clicking on it and then "+ Locker." You can also use the search function.
4. Your locker will display the total V-Buck value of your acquired items.
5. Use a V-Buck to USD calculator to estimate your total dollar amount spent.

Neither method is flawless, but they provide reasonable estimations of your Fortnite spending.

Fortnite is available on various platforms, including Meta Quest 2 and 3.