Alerts and notifications

Gylder is built for a short daily visit, which means the things worth knowing between visits have to come to you. That is what alerts are for.

Set them up under Settings → Alerts & Notifications.

What you can be alerted on

Net worth drop. Fires when your net worth falls since the previous day. You set a percentage, an amount in euro, or both, and it fires if either threshold is crossed. Both is usually right: a percentage alone is noisy on a small portfolio, an amount alone is noisy on a large one.

Account sync failed. Fires when a connected account fails to sync several times in a row, rather than on a single blip, since one failed attempt is usually transient.

Crypto price drop. Fires when any crypto asset you hold falls more than a set percentage within 24 hours.

All-time high. Fires when any tracked asset reaches a new high.

Monthly summary. A summary of how your net worth performed, by email, on the first of each month.

The one worth leaving on

Account sync failed, and it is worth saying why.

A broken connection is the failure that makes every other number quietly wrong. A stale account keeps showing its last known balance, so your net worth stays plausible while drifting further from reality every day, and nothing on the dashboard looks broken. The other alerts tell you something changed; this one tells you the app has stopped being able to see.

How they reach you

Each alert type is configured independently, so you choose per type whether it arrives by email, in the in-app notification bell, or both.

In-app notifications persist until you dismiss them and show a badge count, so an alert that fires while you are away is still waiting when you return. Email is the one that reaches you when you are not looking at Gylder at all, which is the point of alerts in the first place.

A monthly summary as email only, and a sync failure as both, is a reasonable starting point.

Plan and billing notices

Notices about your own plan, such as a trial converting or a subscription ending, are separate from the alerts above. They always appear, on every plan, and are not something you configure. They concern your access to the product rather than your finances.

Availability

Custom alerts, meaning the five types above, are a Pro feature. On the free and basic plans the alerts page shows what the feature looks like rather than hiding it, so you can see what you would get.

Plan and billing notices are unaffected and reach everyone.

What alerts do not do

They are not real-time. Net worth and all-time-high checks run after a background sync, crypto checks run periodically through the day, and the monthly summary is a scheduled job. An alert about a price move arrives within the hour, not the second.

They are not advice. An alert says a threshold you chose was crossed. It does not suggest selling, buying or rebalancing, and the thresholds are yours rather than ones Gylder picked.

They cannot see what has stopped syncing. A crypto drop on an exchange that has not synced for a week will not fire, because Gylder does not have the price move. This is the same reason the sync failure alert matters more than it first appears.

If an alert did not fire

Check in this order:

1. Is the alert type switched on, and does it have a delivery channel selected? An alert with no channel has nowhere to go.
2. Was the threshold actually crossed? A 5% drop does not fire a 10% alert.
3. Did the account sync? No new data means no evaluation. See account health on the dashboard.
4. Check spam for email alerts.