For freelancers, gig workers & 1099 contractors

You didn't quit your 9-to-5 to work 24/7

Name: Payday Relay
Price: 19.00 USD
Author: Shari Dove Shepard

Payday Relay turns unpredictable income into one weekly finish line, with money set aside for taxes and paid time off that syncs automatically to your own Google Sheet.

See How It Works

Four relays (28 days) free, the full app and your own Google Sheet
Card on file, charged $0 today. Cancel any time before day 28
Then $19/mo or $119/yr. Your sheet stays yours either way

Payday Relay, today's target on your phone

The Independent Work Trap

When work is there but structure isn't.

The problem

When no one else defines the workday, it's hard to know when you've reached the finish line.

Self-employed work rarely arrives with a schedule. Income shows up in pieces, and there's no manager, clock, or paycheck rhythm to keep work contained and prevent work and life hours from blurring together. Without those edges, it becomes hard to know what today needs from you, or when you can stop with confidence.

The philosophy

Structure around money, time, rest, and agency.

Payday Relay gives independent earning a structure. It turns your money goals into a weekly rhythm, gives each day a clear target, and helps you pass progress forward in a weekly relay race with quarterly "pit stops." You start where you are, run one week at a time, and build a rhythm that supports your work, your rest, and the life you're working toward.

See it work

A two-minute look inside.

Explainer video, arriving shortly.

A walkthrough of logging a win in the app and watching it land in your own Google Sheet.

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Included with Your Season Pass

Everything You Need To Run Your Race

Your Season Pass brings the full Payday Relay system together: your target, your Google Sheet, and the app that keeps your weekly rhythm moving.

Your relay targets, weekly target and 12-month path

Your Target

Find the weekly number that supports your income, debt, savings, and PTO goals for the year, and keep it: your relay targets get emailed to you as your own PDF.

Your Payday Relay Google Sheet, weekly relays, deductions, and allocations

Your Sheet

Generated for you the moment you sign up, in your own Google Drive. You never have to type in it. Everything you log in the app syncs straight into it: 52 weekly relays, set-asides, and a full-season scoreboard.

The Payday Relay app, what's left this week on your phone

Your App

Log wins from your phone, watch your week move from red to black to green, and let Caddy help you stay in rhythm without living inside a spreadsheet.

However you like to work, there's a lane for it. Your relay targets land in your inbox as your own PDF to keep. Your Google Sheet syncs with every entry you log, clean enough to hand your accountant at year end. And the app keeps your week moving.

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“Most people don't leave corporate, traditional, or fixed-schedule work because they want to work 24/7. They leave because they want more agency, more control, more flexibility, and more room to build a life that actually fits. Payday Relay is built for people already in motion: people who understand that structure is not a luxury. It's what makes independent work sustainable.”

Shari Dove Shepard · Founder, Payday Relay

Vetted by tax and finance pros who support 1099 earners.

Thank you for an amazing, simple resource to help self-employed people calculate the estimated payments required each quarter. This is a big challenge to do without a framework. I also love the way this tool helps set stretch goals and track progress towards them. What we measure is a key to getting the results we want.

Derek Tennant

Enrolled Agent, esoterax.com

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