Notifications

Avitly has an in-app notification feed. It is scoped to the organisation you are currently in, and it shows two kinds of item: notifications addressed to you personally, and broadcasts sent to everyone in the organisation. You never see notifications addressed to a colleague, and that is enforced in the database rather than only hidden in the interface.

The bell and the feed

The bell in the app header shows unread items and updates live: a new notification arrives without a page refresh. Clicking through takes you to the full page at /notifications, which holds up to the most recent two hundred items.

The page has two views, All and Unread, with the unread count in the tab. Unread rows are tinted, and each one is dated. Items are icon-coded by what they are about, so comments, acceptances, rejections and views are distinguishable at a glance.

What you can do with an item

Each notification offers up to three actions:

• Open, when the notification points at something. It marks the item read and takes you straight there, for example to your schedule or to an invitation.
• Create task, which turns the notification into a task titled after it, attached to the relevant project when there is one, with the notification body as its description. After creating it, the button becomes Open task.
• Mark read, per item. Mark all read is in the page header when you have unread items.

What generates a notification today

Two things create notifications in the app right now:

• Crew bookings. When a booking that involves you is created, changed or removed, you get a notification naming the project or the absence type and the dates, linking to your schedule. Changes you make yourself do not notify you.
• Team invitations. If someone invites an email address that already has an Avitly account, that person gets a notification naming the inviter, the organisation and the role, linking to the accept page.

Other events in the app do not raise notifications yet. If you are waiting on a quote acceptance or an offer view, check the record itself rather than the bell.

Email

Email is used for things that leave the building rather than as a general feed. Invitations are emailed to the person invited. Client documents, quotes, offers, invoices and purchase orders, are emailed when you send them, and invoice reminders are sent against overdue invoices. Password resets and signup confirmations come by email as well.

Email preferences are not live yet

The Notifications tab under Account lists switches for quote accepted, new project, weekly digest, billing alerts and chat. Those switches are not connected: they are not saved, and turning one off does not stop any email. There is no weekly digest email being sent today.

If you need to stop a specific kind of email, the practical answer is to change the behaviour that causes it, for example by not being on a crew booking or by asking an admin not to resend a document, rather than by looking for a preference that does not exist yet.