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Catch planned bill changes before they surprise you

See the likely changes together and decide what to update on your own terms.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Update Scheduled Transaction

Update an existing scheduled transaction in YNAB. Allows modifying the date, frequency, amount, payee, category, memo, or account of a scheduled transaction. Use YNAB_LIST_SCHEDULED_TRANSACTIONS first to get the scheduled_transaction_id. Amounts should be in milliunits (negative for expenses, positive for income).

Why this helps

When a bill changes, remembering the scheduled YNAB entry and locating it later adds avoidable follow-up work.

  • Identify scheduled expenses that may need attention
  • Keep the decision to update under user control
  • Create a timely reminder from newly extracted bill details

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect VLM Run and YNAB to Notis once in the portal.
  • 2Create a recurring automation in the portal or ask Notis to create it conversationally.
  • 3In one prompt, ask Notis to compare available VLM Run bill amounts with YNAB scheduled transactions and report candidate updates for review, without applying them.
  • 4Choose a recurring schedule, select a report channel, and test with one bill that changed.

Questions about this workflow

Does this update the schedule automatically?

No. It identifies a possible update and reports it. A user can review the details before any separate update is made.

Why is the update action listed?

The action is a possible next step for an explicitly reviewed change. This workflow's instruction is to report candidates only.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link VLM Run to Ynab. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

VLM Run triggers

Ynab actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Create a new account in a budget

Tool to create a new account in a budget. Use when you need to add a manual (non-linked) account to a specific budget.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Create Scheduled Transaction

Creates a scheduled (recurring) transaction in a YNAB budget. Use this to set up bills, recurring expenses, or income that repeats on a schedule. Requires an account_id (from YNAB_LIST_ACCOUNTS), a date, frequency, and amount in milliunits.

ActionInstant

Delete Scheduled Transaction

Permanently deletes a scheduled transaction from a YNAB budget. Use this when a recurring transaction is no longer needed. This action cannot be undone. Obtain the scheduled_transaction_id from list_scheduled_transactions or get_scheduled_transaction_by_id before calling this.

ActionInstant

Get Account by ID

Tool to retrieve a single account resource. Use when you need details of a specific account by its ID after determining the budget.

ActionInstant

Get Budget By ID

Retrieve a complete budget export by ID, including all accounts, categories, payees, and transactions. Use this tool when you need comprehensive budget data. The response includes: - Budget metadata (name, date/currency formats) - All accounts with balances - Category groups and categories with budgeted amounts and balances - All payees - All transactions and scheduled transactions (optional, may be large) For incremental syncing, use last_knowledge_of_server to only fetch changes since your last request. Note: Currency amounts are in 'milliunits' format (divide by 1000 for standard units).

ActionInstant

Get Budget Month

Tool to retrieve a specific budget month. Use when you need detailed summary and category budgets for a given month after confirming the budget ID. Monetary amounts are returned in milliunits (divide by 1000 for standard currency). Response includes high-level aggregates and a nested category array within the month payload for per-category budget analysis.

ActionInstant

Get Budget Settings

Tool to retrieve budget-level settings. Use when you need to fetch currency and date formatting preferences for a specific budget.

ActionInstant

Get Category by ID

Retrieve a single YNAB budget category by its ID. Use this to get detailed category information including budgeted amounts, activity, balance, and goal settings. Amounts are returned for the current budget month (UTC). Requires both budget_id and category_id - use 'last-used' or 'default' for budget_id if you don't have a specific budget ID.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

VLM Run and Ynab, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

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