Every Receipt Email Into Your Budget Sheet
For budgets that fall apart by the third week. Pick Gmail, say what you want, and DuckyHelper keeps your sheet current: each receipt email becomes a row with the store, amount and category, through the Gmail and Sheets APIs it learned, so your budget is never a weekend project.
“Whenever a receipt email arrives, add the store, amount and category to my Budget sheet.”
- 01Set it once: Gmail, your budget sheet, your categories
- 02Turn Gmail and Google Sheets into APIs it can callIt watches each site's own requests once and saves them as actions. Kept on your device.
searchThreads(query, since)getMessage(id)appendRows(sheet, rows) - 03Spot each new receipt as it arrives
- 04Read the store, amount and date
- 05Add a row with the right category
You getKnow where your money goes, today. Your budget sheet matches your inbox without you typing a thing.
A run, drawn from this page · early access on Mac
Nothing to send, so it runs straight through.
Nothing in this job sends a message or pays for anything, so it works through to the end and tells you when it's done. If a step ever would, it's built to stop and ask you first.
If it hits a sign-in, you sign in yourself. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers.
Set it once. It keeps going.
This one is always on. Whenever a receipt email arrives, it checks mail.google.com through the API it learned, so each run is quick, and every run lands in the history.
It's still built to ask before it sends or pays. Always-on automations are in early access on Mac.
New automation- Site
- mail.google.com
- What
- Add each receipt to my Budget sheet with store, amount and category.
- When
- Whenever a receipt email arrives
- Runs
- Always on · through the API it learned
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Before you ask it.
What do I say?
Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud, in your own words, like "Whenever a receipt email arrives, add the store, amount and category to my Budget sheet."
Why is the second time faster?
The first time, it writes small JavaScript tools for Gmail and Google Sheets and builds an API from each site's own buttons, forms and requests. After that it calls them directly, so the job runs in one go instead of click by click. It costs less and breaks less.
Will it send anything without me?
It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers: you sign in yourself, and it picks up from there.
Why not just do it by hand?
Budgets break because typing in every receipt is a chore, so the sheet stops matching your spending.
Can it keep doing this on its own?
Yes, that's the point of this one. Whenever a receipt email arrives, it checks mail.google.com through the API it learned, so each run is quick. Pause or change it any time.
Can I use this today?
Doing jobs in your apps is in early access on Mac. Talking to DuckyHelper, and having it see your screen and draw on it, works today on Mac, Windows and Linux.
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