Achievabee now sends one email a week. It arrives on Sunday evening, it is short, and it tells you what is actually going on in your family's hive.
Until this, the product never reached out to anybody. If a family set it up and drifted away, nothing noticed and nothing said anything. That is a strange thing for a habit app to be silent about, since the whole point is the week that just happened.
It is a diagnosis, not a report
The email is not a summary of everything. It looks at your household and says the one thing that is true this week.
There are six of those. Your kids earned points but there is nothing on the reward shelf to spend them on. There are chores waiting on your approval. You set the app up but never added a child. You have run out of chores, so there is nothing for anyone to do. Everything is working, here is the week. And one for a household that has clearly stopped, which says so plainly and does not nag.
The seventh state is saying nothing at all.
If there is genuinely nothing to tell you, no email is sent. That was the first thing I built and the thing I would defend hardest, because a weekly email that always arrives stops being information and becomes furniture.
Sunday evening where you are
The note goes out on Sunday evening in your household's timezone rather than at one moment for everybody.
That sounds fussy until you look at what the simple version does. Sending at a single time on Sunday means it lands mid-morning Sunday for a family in Singapore and one o'clock on Monday morning for a family in California. Sunday evening is when a parent might reasonably think about the week ahead. Monday at 1am is not.
What the off switch does and does not cover
Turning it off covers every optional email Achievabee will ever send, not just this one.
That is deliberate, and it prevents a specific unpleasant thing. If the switch only covered the weekly note, then the next optional email I build would arrive for people who had already told me to stop. They would not hunt for the link a second time. They would press the spam button, and rightly.
That complaint would land on the same sending domain that carries parental consent requests and password resets, which is the mail that genuinely matters.
So one switch covers the lot, and it cannot turn off consent requests, consent confirmations, password resets or sign-in mail. Those are how you get into your account and how you approve what happens to your child's data. They are sent by entirely separate code that never consults the setting, so it is not a policy I have to remember. It is not wired up to be able to.