See what arrives in Sarah's inbox every Sunday.
Sarah is a sample persona: a 32-year-old dental assistant and single mom of two in Las Vegas, paid every other Friday. Below are her dashboard and her Sunday email for Sun, Sep 20, computed from her pay, bills and balance exactly the way every subscriber's are.
Sarah's dashboard
as of Sun, Sep 20This week
Delay the weekly $175 variable run until 2026-10-09.
Buffer on Sat, Oct 3 goes from -$25.00 to $150.00 if you defer the weekly $175 variable run to Fri, Oct 9.
Coming up that matters
- Fri, Oct 2 — projected $0.00 buffer (Daycare).
- Thu, Oct 8 — projected -$150.00 buffer (scheduled outflow).
Reply to any Sunday email with a paycheck, a bill or a one-off expense. paychq checks for replies every 10 minutes, then updates the projection.
Sarah's Sunday email
From paychq@forage.bot · subject: paychq: heads up, Oct 2 will be tight
Hi Sarah, Buffer today: $270. Next payday (Sep 25) projects $1575. Payday after (Oct 9) projects $1255. One thing for this week: Delay the weekly $175 variable run until 2026-10-09. Without it, Oct 3 projects -$25 of buffer. Moving it gets you to $150 on the same day. Coming up that matters: • Fri Oct 2 (2026-10-02) projects $0 of buffer (Daycare). • Thu Oct 8 (2026-10-08) projects -$150 of buffer (scheduled outflow). Reply with anything that changed since this morning — a paycheck, a bill, a one-off expense — and the projection updates. — paychq Pause or skip a week: [your private pause / skip link] Cancel and delete your paychq data: [your private delete link] Both open without a login. The delete link asks you to confirm first.
What happens when Sarah replies
Sarah types back in plain English. Once paychq logs her reply, it sends a confirmation that names what it logged and how her buffer changed.
Sarah's reply:
“Friday's paycheck will be $1,640 with tips, and I paid $48 at the pharmacy today”
paychq's confirmation · subject: paychq: updated, 2 changes logged
Got it. 2 updates: + $1640 paycheck (2026-09-25) — Dental practice, with tips − $48 expense (2026-09-20) — pharmacy Your Friday buffer just went from $1575 to $1587. Your next-payday buffer just went from $1575 to $1587. Dashboard: [your private dashboard link] — paychq