Notification Settings
How to configure notification preferences in Forbidden Finance, including bill reminders, budget alerts, goal milestones, quiet hours, and delivery channels.
Overview
Forbidden Finance sends notifications to keep you informed about important financial events: upcoming bills, budget milestones, goal progress, and more. You have full control over which notifications you receive, how they are delivered (push or email), and when they are allowed to reach you. Configure everything from the notification settings screen.
Notification Types
Forbidden Finance supports several categories of notifications, each of which can be independently enabled or disabled:
| Notification Type | What It Does |
|---|---|
| Bill reminders | Alerts you 3 days before a recurring bill is due. |
| Missed payment alerts | Notifies you when a recurring charge does not arrive by its expected date. |
| Budget alerts | Warns you when spending approaches or exceeds your budget allocation (e.g., 80%, 100%). |
| Goal milestones | Celebrates when you hit a savings goal milestone (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%). |
| Sync alerts | Notifies you of bank connection issues or sync failures. |
| Household activity | Alerts you when a household member takes action on shared data. |
| Account security | Notifies you of new logins, password changes, and other security events. Always on for your protection. |
| Digests and reports | Email summaries of your finances on a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual rhythm. Each cadence has its own switch. See Email Digests below. |
How to Configure Notifications
Open Settings
Tap the Settings icon in the navigation bar.
Select Notifications
Tap Notifications to view all notification categories.
Toggle individual types
Each notification type has its own on/off switch. Turn on the ones you want and turn off the ones you do not.
Choose delivery channels
For each enabled notification type, choose whether to receive it as a push notification, an email, or both.
Save
Your preferences are saved automatically as you make changes.
Delivery Channels
- Push notifications — Appear on your device's lock screen and notification center. Requires the Forbidden Finance app to be installed and push notifications enabled in your device settings. Push follows the account that is signed in: when you sign out, that device stops receiving push notifications until you sign in again.
- Email notifications — Sent to the email address on your profile. Useful for notifications you want to review later or when you do not have the app nearby.
You can use both channels for important notifications (like missed payments) and only push for less urgent ones (like goal milestones).
Email Digests
Digests are email summaries of your finances. There are four, and each has its own switch under Settings > Notifications > Digests & Reports. They are independent, so you can run a daily digest and nothing else, or a weekly and an annual, in any combination.
| Digest | What it covers | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Daily digest | Yesterday's spending and transactions, spending so far this month, your top categories, budget status, upcoming bills in the next 7 days, and goal progress. | All plans |
| Weekly summary | Your month so far, top categories, the week's largest transactions, bills due this week, goals, and your net worth. | All plans (net worth from Starter up) |
| Monthly report | A monthly overview: net worth change, income against spending, and goal progress. | Starter and above |
| Annual report | A full year in review: every category, your net worth over the year, and achievements unlocked. Sent on January 1. | Pro and above |
On Pro and Premium, the daily and weekly emails also include a portfolio section with your investment value and the day's movers.
Turn a Digest On or Off
Open Settings
Tap Settings in the navigation bar, then tap Notifications.
Find Digests & Reports
Scroll to the Digests & Reports section. Each digest has its own switch: Daily digest, Weekly summary, Monthly report, and Annual report.
Toggle the ones you want
Changes save as you make them. Turning off the daily digest has no effect on the weekly, and the other way around.
You can also turn one off from the email itself. Every digest carries an unsubscribe link that applies only to that digest, so unsubscribing from the daily summary leaves your weekly one running.
When Digests Arrive
- Delivery time sets roughly what time of day your digests reach you, in your own time zone. It is one setting, shared by all four digests.
- Week starts on sets which day your weekly summary is sent, and the week it covers runs through the day before. The default is Monday.
- The monthly report is sent at the start of the month, and the annual report on January 1.
How Much Detail They Include
The Digest detail level control sets how much of your money appears in the email itself. It applies to all of your digests.
| Level | What the email shows |
|---|---|
| Private | Categories and trends without exact figures. |
| Standard | A middle ground, with movements described rather than itemized. |
| Detailed | Exact figures, including your net worth total and its recent change. |
Quiet Hours
Quiet hours hold push notifications during times when you do not want to be disturbed. They are on by default from 10:00 PM to 8:00 AM in your local time zone — you can change the window, or turn quiet hours off entirely.
Open Quiet Hours
Go to Settings > Notifications > Quiet Hours. The toggle controls whether the window applies at all.
Set the time range
Choose a start time and end time. A window that crosses midnight (like the 10:00 PM to 8:00 AM default) works as you would expect, and the times follow your own time zone.
Held notifications arrive after the window
Notifications generated during quiet hours are delivered when the quiet period ends. Nothing is lost.
A few urgent notifications skip quiet hours and deliver immediately: bank connection problems, expiring bank consents, and security events like a support-access request. Email notifications are also not affected by quiet hours — they are delivered according to their normal schedule.
Tips
Frequently Asked Questions
Why am I not receiving push notifications?
Check that you are still signed in on that device, since signing out stops push there. Then check that push notifications are enabled for Forbidden Finance in your device's system settings (iOS: Settings > Notifications, Android: Settings > Apps), and that the specific notification type is enabled within the app's notification settings.
Why did my notifications stop on one device?
The most likely reason is that you signed out on that device. Signing out ends its push registration, so notifications stop there and continue on your other signed-in devices. Sign back in and they resume.
Two of us share a tablet. Why does only one of us get notifications on it?
A device can receive push notifications for one account at a time, and the most recent sign-in owns it. When the second person signs in on that tablet, it starts delivering their notifications instead. Nothing is lost for the first person: their notifications keep arriving on their own devices, and everything is still in the app when they next sign in.
Can I snooze a notification?
Notification snoozing is handled by your device's operating system, not Forbidden Finance. On most devices, you can swipe a notification to snooze it for a set period.
Do quiet hours apply to email notifications?
No. Quiet hours only affect push notifications. Emails are sent on their normal schedule. If you want to reduce email volume, adjust individual notification types to push-only.
Can I set different notification preferences for each household member?
Yes. Each household member manages their own notification preferences independently from their own account settings.
Related Articles
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Manage household activity notifications.Need more help? Contact us at [email protected].