How to get a Chase alert for every purchase
Chase can email you each time your card is used. Set its transaction alert to the lowest amount and every purchase sends one, a running record you can read on the spot or forward into RichDue.
Step by step
On chase.com
Chase names its menus differently on different screens, so each step gives the words to look for.
Sign in at chase.com and open “Profile & settings”, then “Alerts”.
Select “Choose alerts” (some accounts show “Manage alerts” or “Get started”).
Pick the card or checking account from the list.
Turn on the transaction alert, the one for any purchase “over” an amount you set.
Set the lowest amount it takes, choose email, and save.
Or
In the Chase app
Tap the person icon at the top.
Tap “Alerts” (it may read “Alerts & messages” or “Manage alerts”).
Pick the account, then the transaction alert.
Set the amount and choose email, push notification or text.
Which alert, and what amount
Chase’s card alerts include a transaction alert you can set for every purchase, or only for purchases over an amount such as $20. It carries the amount and where the card was used.
For every purchase, set the amount as low as the screen allows: readers report $0.00 and $0.01 working. A charge under the amount you set sends no alert.
How it reaches you
Chase sends account alerts by email, text or push notification, and you can change or pause them at any time. Choose email for this one: an email is a record you can search later, and it’s the kind RichDue reads when you forward it.
- Email · pick this
- Push notification
- Text
Changed February 17, 2026
Two alerts Chase stopped sending on its own
From February 17, 2026, Chase credit cards no longer send the automatic “International charge posted” and “Online, phone or mail charge authorized” alerts. Chase says its fraud monitoring is unchanged. The transaction alert you set yourself is still offered; Chase hasn’t said whether it covers online and international charges, so check your first few statements against the alerts you received.
When it arrives, and what it costs
Most alerts go out right after the transaction; Chase says some are processed at the end of the business day, and an outage can delay one.
Chase doesn’t charge for alerts. Your phone plan’s message and data rates may apply to texts and push.
Forwarded
What RichDue reads from a Chase alert
From each alert RichDue keeps four things: the merchant, the amount, the day and the last 4 of the card or account.
A purchase on your card
Both of Chase’s purchase alert styles become an expense with the merchant, the amount, the day and the card’s last 4, waiting for your review.
A refund or credit
Comes in as money back on the card, so the month’s spending drops by it.
A direct deposit
Comes in as income on checking, named after the company that paid it.
A Zelle payment you sent
Comes in as “Zelle payment to” the person, money out of checking.
Next
Forward them into RichDue
The days between statements, filled in.
Start free, then open Bank alerts in RichDue for your own forwarding address and a Gmail filter that forwards Chase’s purchase alerts only, not its security emails. Each alert lands in Activity as a row to review. When the statement arrives, its row takes the alert’s place, so nothing counts twice.
For the months before you turned alerts on, the Chase export guide shows where the download is.
Screenshots, bank alerts, statements or two taps: RichDue reads them, catches duplicates and asks before saving.
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