Have your last pay date to hand. That is genuinely all you need to get the cycle right.
Steps
Open Settings, then Payday Schedule
On the web the rail has a gear at the top left. On a phone it is the last tab. Cashrou offers to set this up on first run, so if you are new you are probably already here.
Choose how often you are paid
Weekly, every two weeks, twice a month, or monthly. Pick what your employer actually does rather than what is convenient. Twice a month and every two weeks are different things and Cashrou treats them differently.
Enter your most recent pay date
One date is enough. Cashrou projects forward from it and shows you the next four periods so you can check they look right before saving.
Set the buffer you never want to touch
A figure that stays out of every safe-to-use calculation. Most people use one to two hundred. It is the difference between a plan you trust and one you second-guess.
Save, then confirm your balances
Saving opens the first routine. Confirming balances is step one of it, and once that is done every figure in the app is live.
If the amount changes every time
The schedule is about dates, not amounts, so a variable paycheck does not need a different setting. You keep the rhythm you are actually paid on, and each cycle you enter what landed.
Income on a payday is split into what has arrived and what is still expected. Ticking a payment as received puts the real figure in, so the safe-to-use number is built on what you were actually paid rather than on an estimate of it.
Changing it later
Go to Settings, then Payday Schedule. Changing the frequency does not delete anything: past cycles keep the dates they had, and the new frequency applies from the next one onward.
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