How to Get an Exchange Rate Alert by Email
There are a few ways to get an exchange rate alert by email: rate alerts in a transfer app such as Wise or XE, a spreadsheet with a currency function and a scheduled script, a bank alert, or one sentence handed to MailMeWhen, which needs no account or app.
Sending money home, paying a tuition bill abroad, saving for a trip: the exchange rate decides how much you actually pay, and it moves every day. Watching it means opening a converter and remembering the number you were hoping for.
Ways to get an exchange rate alert by email
An exchange rate alert in one sentence
With MailMeWhen you write the pair and the rule as you'd say it: 'email me every morning with the dollar-to-euro rate and how it moved', or 'tell me the day a dollar buys less than 0.90 euros'. We watch it and write to you — every day, or only when your line is crossed.
The first 7 days are free with no payment details; after that it's $5/month for that one thing, and it stops by itself if you don't subscribe. One reply stops it any time.
Good to know about exchange rate alerts
Name the direction and the number: 'when the pound falls below 1.25 dollars' is unambiguous; 'when the rate is good' isn't.
Published rates are the mid-market rate; what your bank or app charges sits a little off it. Set your line with that margin in mind.
Try it — hand us this sentence:
Email me every morning with the USD to EUR exchange rate and how much it changed since yesterday. Also tell me right away if a dollar buys less than 0.90 euros.
Common questions
Which exchange rate does the letter report?
The published mid-market rate — the one converters and news sites show. What your bank or transfer app actually gives you sits a little off it, so set your line with that margin in mind. It's information, not advice.
Does it work for any currency pair?
Any pair with a published rate. Name the two currencies the way you'd say them, such as 'dollar to euro'. Within 24 hours you get one letter confirming what is being watched; if something about the request can't be done, that first letter says so.
Should I ask for the rate every morning or an alert when my line is crossed?
Whichever you'd act on. A daily letter arrives every morning with the rate and how it moved; an alert stays silent until the day the rate crosses your line, apart from one letter within 24 hours confirming what is being watched. The example request on this page asks for both at once.