Turn on email reminders

Settings has a Notifications tab with optional email reminders. Each one is off until you turn it on — Beyond Payday never emails you a reminder unless you ask for it.

Before you start

• Available on every plan, Free and Pro.
• The Email Reminders card is for the account owner and spouse. Child accounts see the Notifications tab, but only the Marketing Emails card on it.

Steps

1. Go to Settings › Notifications (opens in a new tab).
2. Turn on any combination of the switches:
   • Bill Due Reminders — an email the day before each of your bills is due.
   • Promotional Pricing — an email before a promotional price or discount on one of your bills ends, so you can check the new price instead of finding it on your statement. One email covers everything ending, and it asks you to confirm the real amount — Beyond Payday never predicts a price or suggests a provider. Only sent when you have a bill with promotional pricing coming up.
   • Payday Reminder — the day before you get paid, a nudge to pay yourself first (a little to savings, an extra debt payment, or a goal). Only sent when you have a recurring income source paying out.
   • Quarterly Estimated Tax — if you have self-employment or 1099 income, a reminder about a week and again a day before each quarterly IRS deadline (April 15, June 15, September 15, January 15) with a rough amount to set aside. It's an estimate to verify, not tax advice — always confirm the real number before you pay. Only sent when you have income that owes estimated tax.
   • Monthly Check-In — one email on the 1st of the month, nudging you to update your asset and debt balances and add or remove any bills that changed.
   • Monthly Goal Progress — one email on the 1st of the month summarizing how each of your goals is tracking (progress, pace, and what's left). Only sent if you have active goals.
   • Annual Checkup (each January) — one email on January 2nd, timed to when IRS contribution limits and tax brackets refresh each year.
   • Weekly What's New Digest — a short email every Friday listing the updates shipped that week on the What's New page. Quiet weeks with no updates get no email.
   • New Blog Posts — an email each time a new post is published on the Beyond Payday blog. Sent when the post goes live, not on a schedule.
3. Each switch saves immediately — there's no separate save button.

Good to know

• Every reminder is opt-in and off by default. Turning one on only affects that one reminder; the others stay however you left them.
• Reminders follow your timezone. Your account stores a timezone, so "the day before" on the bill and payday reminders means the day before in your local time. It's detected from your browser automatically; if it can't be worked out you're asked to pick one once. You can change it any time under Timezone in Settings (opens in a new tab) › Application Settings, and security emails show their timestamps in it too.
• Every reminder email has a preferences link at the bottom. It opens a page where you turn off just that reminder (and can turn off others) without logging in — but it only takes effect when you click the button, so an email app that quietly scans links can't unsubscribe you by accident.
• You may see a short prompt offering to turn on the matching reminder — after creating a goal, adding a bill or income, finishing Review your numbers, opening What's New, or reading a post on the blog. It only shows while that reminder is off, and only a few times at most. "Not now" hides it for a while; Don't ask again stops that prompt for good. That choice is saved to your account, so it applies on every device.
• Push notifications are separate too. In the Beyond Payday phone app, the Push Notifications card lets you get any of these reminders as a push instead of, or as well as, the email. See Turn on push notifications in the app.
• Marketing email is a separate switch. The Marketing Emails card below this one controls product news and offers, and it has nothing to do with these reminders — see Turn marketing emails on or off.
• Reminders don't replace required account email. Sign-up verification, password resets, billing receipts, and family invitations are sent regardless of these settings.
• Expected emails stopped arriving? Check your spam folder and account email address. Beyond Payday stops sending to an address after a confirmed mailbox failure or spam complaint. Contact support (opens in a new tab) if the problem is fixed; turning reminder switches on does not clear a delivery block.