Short answers for the things people ask about most. Nothing here needs a setting you can't already see in the app.
The payslip compare
Owed counts what your shifts add up to. Your payslip says what you were paid.
The compare puts the two side by side, to the cent.
When a pay period ends, open the Pay tab and type in the total from your payslip. Owed
already knows what your logged shifts came to for that period, so the two numbers sit
together: match, under, or over.
A mismatch isn't a verdict on anyone. It usually means a shift wasn't
logged, a rate changed, or the payslip covers different dates than you expected. Owed
never decides who's right, it just shows you both numbers so you can ask the question
with the figures in hand.
Your figures never leave your phone. Nothing is sent anywhere when you compare.
A different rate for different days
If Saturday pays more than Tuesday, tell the job once, every shift prices
itself from then on.
Open your job (Jobs tab), and under Rate by day choose how your pay
varies. Wk / wknd covers the common case with two rates.
Per day gives every weekday its own rate, the full seven, for rosters
where no two days pay alike.
Blank days pay the base rate, so you only fill in the days that differ.
Overnight shifts split at midnight. The hours before midnight price
at that day's rate, the hours after at the next day's. You'll see the split on the
shift's own row.
The payday reminder
Owed can nudge you the morning after a pay period closes, so the compare is
waiting when your payslip lands.
Turn it on in Settings. It's one quiet notification at 9am the day after each period
ends, deep-linking straight to the Pay tab.
Nothing leaves your phone. The reminder is scheduled on the device
itself, no server, no account, no push service. If you stop opening Owed, the reminders
stop on their own rather than nagging; opting out cancels everything immediately.
Lock Owed behind Face ID
Your phone can already do this, no Owed setting needed.
Long-press the Owed icon on your home screen and choose Require Face ID.
From then on, opening Owed asks for Face ID first, and iOS can also hide what's inside
from search and notifications.
It's an iPhone feature (iOS 18 and later), so it works the same way for every app you
choose to lock, and it's stronger than anything an app could build for itself, because
the phone enforces it before the app even opens.
Why Owed doesn't ship its own lock: your figures never leave your
device and your own iCloud, and the phone's lock covers the doorway better than a second
one inside it would.