# Notifications

**For:** Manager | Shift worker | Admin
**You'll need:** Nothing.

This page covers the messages {{ app_name }} sends you that you can't switch off, and the
in-app feedback that isn't a notification at all. To choose what you're notified about and how
often, see {doc}`/settings-and-admin/personal-settings/notification-preferences` — that's where
the notification bell, the per-category email cadence, mobile push, and shift reminders live.

## What gets emailed regardless

Three emails are transactional — they're part of signing in or being added to a company, so
there's no setting for them:

- **Invitation emails** — sent when a manager adds you to a company. See {doc}`/set-up-your-company/people/add-a-person`.
- **Email confirmation** — sent when you sign up or add a new email address to your account. See {doc}`verify-your-email`.
- **Password reset** — sent when you request a password reset.

Everything else that reaches your inbox is a notification, and you control it — see
{doc}`/settings-and-admin/personal-settings/notification-preferences`.

## In-app toasts

Toasts are the small messages that slide in at the top of the screen after you do something —
saving a shift, publishing the schedule, deleting a person. They report what just happened in
front of you; they are not notifications and never reach your inbox or the bell.

- Ordinary toasts auto-dismiss after **3.5 seconds**.
- Error and warning toasts stay until you close them.
- Hover a toast to pause its timer; move away and it resumes.
- At most **10 toasts** show at once. When more arrive, the oldest dismissable ones are dropped
  first — errors and warnings are never evicted.

There's nothing to configure.

## The 'Send invitation' toggle

When you add a person under **Company → People**, the form has a **'Send invitation'** checkbox.
Tick it and {{ app_name }} emails them an invitation link on save. Leave it off to add the person
quietly and invite them later.

This is a web-only control — the mobile app's add-person form always creates the person without
sending an invitation.

See {doc}`/set-up-your-company/people/add-a-person` for the full flow.

## Verify it worked

After an action, look for a toast at the top of the screen. After you tick **'Send invitation'**
and save, the recipient receives an email within a minute or two.

## Related

- {doc}`/settings-and-admin/personal-settings/notification-preferences`
- {doc}`/set-up-your-company/people/add-a-person`
- {doc}`verify-your-email`