First, what do you already know about your vendors?

Email filters guess from the message. PayPause checks it against your own payment records: who you paid, from which email address, to which account, how much — and which phone number to call.

Import your payment records (CSV) Minimum: vendor and payee email. Account, amount and phone sharpen the checks. Usual export names (Payee, Email, Account Number, Total, Phone) work. Stays in this browser. Download the template

Paste the email that asks you to pay

Include the From, Reply-To and Subject lines if you have them.

Sample chips replay recorded Gemma 4 readings, so they work without a key. Your own email without a key runs in cautious keyword mode (most payment emails get CHECK) — add a free key below for the AI reader. Email text is sent to Google's Gemini API; don't paste real customer data on a free key.

Your own emails: add a free Gemini key for the AI reader

1. Open aistudio.google.com/apikey and create a key (about a minute). 2. Paste it here. Without a key, your own emails get the cautious keyword reader, which sends most payment emails to CHECK. The key stays in this tab's memory; only the email text (never your records) goes to Google's Gemini API.