Connect your email to Porch

Step 1 of Porch's settings, It ships, is where Porch learns a box is coming. Porch reads the emails stores send when a box ships, so it knows what's coming, from which store, and when.

Read-only. Porch keeps only the store, the delivery window, the carrier and the tracking number. It never keeps your emails.

Gmail

1. 1Open Home Field, go to Porch, then Porch settings.
2. 2In step 1, It ships, tap Gmail.
3. 3Pick the Gmail account you shop with and tap Allow. Porch can only read, never send or delete.
4. 4Porch looks through the last week of shipping emails and lists what it finds.
5. 5Tap Done. The green card shows how many emails are connected and what's coming next.

Outlook, Hotmail or Live

1. 1Open Home Field, go to Porch, then Porch settings.
2. 2In step 1, It ships, tap Outlook.
3. 3Sign in and tap Accept. Porch can only read, never send or delete.
4. 4Porch looks through the last week of shipping emails and lists what it finds.
5. 5Tap Done.

More than one mailbox

1. 1Tap the green card to open it.
2. 2Tap Add another, then Gmail or Outlook.
3. 3Connect up to 10 mailboxes, yours and your household's.

Other ways to tell Porch

1. 1Forward emails works for Yahoo, iCloud, AOL and work mail. You set a forwarding rule once on a computer. In step 1, open Other ways to tell Porch, then Forward emails, and tap Email me the steps.
2. 2Connect calendar: trips on your calendar tell Porch when nobody's home, so it watches boxes closer.
3. 3Type one in: for a delivery with no email, like a neighbor's drop-off.

If something's off

1. 1A yellow card means a mailbox can't be read. “Couldn't read just now” clears on its own. “Sign-in ended” needs Reconnect on that mailbox.
2. 2To remove a mailbox, tap its ⋯, then Disconnect. Porch tells Google or Microsoft to drop its access.

Still stuck? Email support@homefield.tv and we'll walk you through it. More help: Share cameras · Add an app · Support