Email by Zapier + YNAB

Send outbound emails with Email by Zapier when categories overspent in You Need A Budget

Stay on top of your budget with an easy email notification workflow. If you exceed a category limit in the You Need A Budget app, this intuitive automation promptly sends an outbound email using Email by Zapier. Convenient and dependable, this setup helps manage your finances by delivering vital overspend alerts directly to your inbox.

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Category Overspent
Triggers when a category is overspent and has a negative balance.
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Send up to 5 emails per day on Free or Trial Zapier plans, or up to 10 emails per hour on paid Zapier plans from a custom zapiermail.com address.
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Supported triggers and actions

- Balance Below AmountRequired
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Polling
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- Age of Money DaysRequired
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Category Overspent
Triggers when a category is overspent and has a negative balance.
Trigger
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New or Updated Category
Triggers when a new category is created or an existing category is updated.
Trigger
Polling
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New or Updated Transaction
Triggers when a transaction is created or updated.
Trigger
Polling
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New Account
Triggers when a new account is created.
Trigger
Polling
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New Payee
Triggers when a new payee is created.
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Polling
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- AccountRequired
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- CategoryRequired
- Budget AmountRequired
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- Api Docs Info
- Stop on errorRequired
- HTTP MethodRequired
- URLRequired
- Query string parameters
- Additional request headers
- Body
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- Setup Directions
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Instant
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Age of Money Changes
Triggers when your Age of Money changes.
Trigger
Polling
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- Balance Below AmountRequired
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New or Updated Account
Triggers when a new account is created or an existing account is updated.
Trigger
Polling
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New or Updated Scheduled Transaction
Triggers when a scheduled transaction is created or updated.
Trigger
Polling
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Goal Completed
Triggers when a goal is completed.
Trigger
Polling
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New Category
Triggers when a new category is created.
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Polling
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New Transaction
Triggers when a new transaction is created.
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Polling
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- CategoryRequired
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- AccountRequired
- AmountRequired
- DateRequired
- Payee Type
- Category
- Memo
- Cleared
- Approved?Required
- Flag Color
- Import Id
Action
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New Inbound Email
Triggers when an email is forwarded to your own custom
Trigger
Instant
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- Zap Id
- Free Test Limitation
- ToRequired
- SubjectRequired
- Body (HTML or Plain)Required
- Attachment
- From Name
- Reply To
- Cc
- Bcc
- Force Linebreaks?
- Enable read receipts?
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About Email by Zapier

Send and receive email via a custom Zapier email address at "zapiermail.com". This is great for triggering off of emails and sending custom emails. (Max of 10 email sends per hour.) Have direct access to your own email servers? Check out our IMAP and SMTP services!

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