CARD SPEND · LAPTOP SETUP

Connect your bank alerts

About 3 minutes in Gmail on this laptop. Only bank emails are forwarded, never the rest of your inbox. Each step ticks itself off below.

Your Card Spend address
1

Open the bank-only filter

Open Gmail filter

Gmail opens with the bank senders already filled in. Click Create filter, not Search.

Gmail search box with the bank senders filled in. The Create filter link is highlighted.
2

Add your Card Spend address

Click Add forwarding address.

Gmail filter options. The Add forwarding address link is highlighted.

Paste your address (the Copy button at the top of this page) and click Next. Then click Proceed, then OK.

Gmail's Add a forwarding address box with an address pasted in and the Next button highlighted.

Google may ask you to sign in again. That's Google checking it's really you.

Gmail then shows its Forwarding settings. Leave Disable forwarding selected and don't change anything there. That setting forwards your whole inbox; the filter in step 4 forwards bank emails only. Gmail Forwarding settings with Disable forwarding selected and highlighted.
Waiting for Gmail…
3

We confirm it for you

Gmail now asks Card Spend whether it may forward. We say yes on your behalf, within seconds. Nothing to do here.

This ticks off as soon as it's done.
4

Finish the filter

Open Gmail filter again

Click Create filter. Tick Forward it to, pick your Card Spend address, then click Create filter.

Gmail filter options with Forward it to ticked, the Card Spend address picked, and Create filter highlighted.
This ticks off when the next bank email arrives. To check now, forward any recent card alert to your address.

Optional: bring in past spends

Forwarding only catches new emails. To see everything since :

Show the steps
  1. Gmail ⚙ Settings → See all settings: set Maximum page size to 100 and turn Conversation view off → Save changes.
  2. Open the search for your past bank alerts.
  3. Tick the select-all box → ⋮ More → Forward as attachment → send to your Card Spend address.
  4. Go to the next page (›) and repeat until the end.