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How to Build Salary-Day Automation When Your Income Changes Every Month (UK Freelancer Setup)

Freelancers get ignored by every salary-day automation guide because there's no fixed BACS date. The fix: use Starling as an income buffer, sweep a fixed amount to Monzo on the 1st, and let Plum's AI saver plus Monzo's event-based salary detection scale everything to what actually landed that month.

6 min read Jul 31
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