Automations
Recurring payments cannot wait for you to click Approve every Friday. PayAI uses a dedicated agent wallet for those runs, bounded on-chain. You choose how each automation is funded.
Last updated 13 October 2026
Why two modes
| Wallet Automation | Reserved Funds | |
|---|---|---|
| Where funds sit | Your wallet, until each run | AutomationVault, from deposit |
| Guarantee | Run fails if balance/allowance is short | Run can pay as long as the reservation covers it |
| Who can receive | The recipients you set | Only the committed recipient, or a refund to you |
| How to stop | Cancel, and revoke the token approval | Cancel — unspent reservation refunds |
Neither mode puts your balance on a PayAI server. The agent can only spend within the caps PaymentExecutor enforces. See Security.
Wallet Automation
You approve PaymentExecutor to pull an ERC-20 from your wallet, up to a limit. Each scheduled run pulls exactly what is due. Native MON uses WMON — you wrap, then approve.
If another active automation shares that token approval, cancelling one will not silently revoke it. You can revoke from the app, your wallet, or the explorer.
Reserved Funds
You deposit the budget into AutomationVault for that automation. The vault can only pay the recipient you committed to, or refund you. A later balance change in your wallet cannot starve the run.
Runs
Execute Now runs the next payment immediately. Skip advances past the next occurrence without sending. Cancel stops future runs. Those actions still require a signed confirmation somewhere in that automation history — PayAI does not invent a payment you never authorized.
On-chain limits
PaymentExecutor enforces a per-transaction cap and a rolling daily cap, separately for stablecoins and native MON. Every payment carries a unique request id. These limits hold even if the application layer were compromised.