For parents and guardians

Parents can pay. Students stay in control.

Check that your student's school email is supported, then sign up with your own email and pay for the plan. Your student connects their own school email and gets the alerts. You see whether protection is active. You don't see their email.

Get started

First, check that the student's school email is supported. You'll create your account with your own email after that.

How it works for you

  1. 1

    You check support, then sign up and pay with your email.

    Start by entering your student's school email so we can confirm support before you pay. When it's time to create the payer account, use your own email. Same plan and price whether a parent or a student pays.

  2. 2

    You get a mailbox too, and we send your student an invite.

    Your student connects their own Gmail or Microsoft 365 account through Google or Microsoft's official sign-in. You never see their password - neither do we. The plan includes 2 protected mailboxes, so you can also connect your own inbox at no extra cost and see how it works.

  3. 3

    Your student gets the alerts. You see status.

    When something important arrives - financial aid, registration hold, bursar notice - your student gets a text. You can see whether their seat is connected and active.

What you'll see vs. what you won't

You see

  • • Seat status: invited, connected, disconnected
  • • Whether protection is active for each seat you sponsor
  • • Billing and plan details
  • • Whether an invited student still needs to finish setup

You don't see

  • • Email content or message bodies
  • • Sender names or subject lines
  • • Alert summaries sent to your student
  • • What your student is doing in their inbox

Email content is processed read-only and never stored. Alert summaries are visible only to the student who connected the account.

Payer privacy

If you pay for someone else's account, you can see setup and service status, such as whether their mailbox is connected and whether protection is active. You cannot see their email, alerts, dashboard, or alert history.

Over time, we may add high-level usage metrics to help payers understand that the service is working. Those metrics will stay numerical and privacy-preserving. They will not include email content, sender names, subject lines, alert summaries, or the timing of specific alerts.

Why parents do this

Schools send the warnings by email. Students don't live in email. The deadline gets missed, the hold appears, and the impact - financial, academic, stress - is often shared by the student and the family.

Email Cheat Code is the safety net. It surfaces the things that actually matter: financial aid documents needed, registration holds, bursar balances, housing deadlines, academic notices. It does not replace your student's judgment. It just makes sure they see the message in time to act.

College is often a team sport. Every family wants students to build independence and handle the day-to-day themselves. But when a missed email turns into a hold, a late fee, or a scramble with an office, the stress often spreads.

Email Cheat Code helps catch the important stuff earlier, so the family can spend less time on cleanup and more time on the good parts.

Read-only access

We can read, never send, delete, or modify

CASA Tier 2 verified

Independently audited by TAC Security

Security documentation

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Same plan. Same price.

Whether you pay or your student pays, it's the same plan, the same price. See pricing details →

Get started

We'll check your student's school email before signup to confirm support.