Every Kinly household gets a unique forwarding alias —<your-hash>@inbox.kinly.ca. Forward any email to that address and Kinly files it, parses it if it’s financial, and matches it against your tracked transactions. It’s the easiest way to capture monthly utility bills, Cineplex tickets, Costco receipts, and anything else that arrives by email but isn’t in your Gmail integration.
Find your inbox alias
- Go to Settings → Household.
- Look for Forwarding address— it’ll be a long random string ending in
@inbox.kinly.ca. Click the copy button to grab it. - Save the address as a contact in your email client so you can forward to it without typing it out.
What gets captured
Same classifier as the Gmail integration:
- Transaction confirmations become source documents and run through the matching engine.
- Bills (Rogers, Hydro, gas, internet, rent receipts) land in the document vault tagged as bills, ready for tax season.
- Anything elseis discarded without being persisted. (If you accidentally forward a non-financial email, nothing happens — there’s no record we ever saw it.)
Setting up forwarding rules
For recurring bills you receive every month, set up an automatic forwarding rule in your email client. Most clients support this:
- Gmail: Settings → Filters and Blocked Addresses → Create new filter. Match on the bill sender (e.g.
from:hello@rogers.com) and set the action to Forward it to with your Kinly alias selected. Note: you need to add the alias as a verified forwarding address first under Settings → Forwarding and POP/IMAP. - Outlook: Settings → Mail → Rules → Add new rule. Same idea — match on sender, forward to the Kinly alias.
- Apple Mail / iCloud: Use iCloud.com web rules (Mail → cog icon → Rules) since the iOS/macOS app rules don’t support forwarding.
Document vault
Everything you forward shows up in Vault in your Kinly dashboard. Filter by kind (Bill, Receipt, Statement, Forwarded, Other), search by merchant or subject, or scope by year. Click any document to see the parsed structured data plus a link to the original.
When tax season rolls around, you can export everything filtered to a specific year + tag (e.g. medical, home-office) as a single zip. (Tax-season export is Phase 3.)
Privacy considerations
Your alias is a per-household secret — anyone who has it can forward email into your account. The hash is 32 hex characters (≈128 bits of entropy), unguessable in practice, but treat it like a password: don’t paste it in screenshots or share it in public threads.
If you ever need to rotate it (you suspect the address leaked), email us at hello@kinlyhq.com. Phase 1.5 will let you regenerate the alias self-serve from Settings → Household.
Why both Gmail integration AND forwarding?
They cover different cases:
- Gmail integration works best when most of your financial mail lives in one inbox you can grant Kinly access to.
- Forwardingworks for everything else: a separate shopping email, a corporate inbox you don’t want to OAuth into, an Outlook account where the integration isn’t live yet (Outlook OAuth lands in Phase 2).
Most users end up using both.