Forward statements

Corte can give you a private email address for your statements. Send your bank’s statement emails to it, by forwarding them yourself or by having your email forward them automatically, and Corte receives them. You don’t give Corte your email password.

The Forward statements row appears in Settings when the Corte server you use offers forwarding. If you don’t see it, forwarding isn’t available on your server.

Create your address

1. Tap Settings, then Forward statements.
2. Tap Create my address.

Corte shows Your private address, a long address made of random letters and numbers, in a box. It’s yours alone.

Keep it private. Anyone who knows it can send mail to Corte for you, though they can’t see anything in your account. If you think someone else has it, get a new address.

Share or copy the address

Tap Share address to send it to another app, or Copy beside it to copy it. Corte shows “Address copied”. You can also press and hold the address to select it.

Forward your statements

From Gmail

1. In Gmail on a computer, go to Settings, See all settings, Forwarding and POP/IMAP, and choose Add a forwarding address. Enter your Corte address.
2. Gmail sends a confirmation to your Corte address. After a moment, open Forward statements in Corte again: it shows a Gmail confirmation card with a code, a link, or both.
3. Tap Copy code and paste the code into Gmail’s forwarding settings, or tap Or open Gmail’s confirmation link and confirm.
4. In Gmail, create a filter for your bank’s statement emails (for example by the sender’s address) and choose Forward it to your Corte address.

The screen itself sums this up under How to forward, in three steps: open a statement from your bank, create a filter or rule that forwards that bank’s emails to your address, and forward one statement now so Corte can learn its layout.

From other email apps

Outlook.com, iCloud Mail and most other email services have a forwarding setting or rules that forward matching emails. They don’t ask for a confirmation from Corte. Work and school accounts sometimes block forwarding to outside addresses. If yours does, forward statements one at a time by hand.

By hand

Forward any statement email to your Corte address, like any other email.

What Corte does with the emails

The Status card shows when the last message arrived (“Last received …”) or “Nothing received yet.” Messages are stored encrypted, and Corte keeps one copy of each, so forwarding the same email twice does no harm.

An email with several statements attached (one per card, for example) is fine: Corte reads every PDF in it as a statement of its own, and each one shows up on its own in Review if it needs a look.

Payment confirmations

You can also forward the email your bank sends after you pay a card from your account (“Transferencia exitosa”, for example). Corte reads the date, the amount and, when the email prints them, the card’s last 4 digits, and saves the payment on that card, so the card shows as paid. The first email from a bank in a new layout is read with AI, with your AI permission; after that, emails in the same layout are read without AI. If Corte can’t tell which card a payment was for, it waits in Review for you to choose its card. Forwarding the same email twice saves the payment once.

Pause forwarding

Tap Pause forwarding. The screen says “Paused. Mail sent to this address is refused.” and the sender gets a message saying the address doesn’t exist. Tap Resume forwarding to receive mail again. The address stays the same.

Get a new address

1. Tap Get a new address.
2. Confirm with Get new address.

The old address stops working at once. Update any forwarding you set up in your email to use the new address. In Gmail, add the new address and confirm it again.

FAQ

Does Corte read my inbox? No. Corte only receives the emails that are sent to your Corte address.

Is there a limit? Each email can be up to 25 MB, and an address receives up to 50 emails a day. Past that, the sender’s email is returned with a message to try again tomorrow.

I forwarded an email but “Last received” didn’t change. Check that the email went to the exact address shown, including every letter. If the sender got an error back, it explains why: an unknown or paused address, an email that is too large, or too many emails today.

Can I have more than one address? No, one per account. Getting a new address replaces the old one.

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