The switches are in My organisation → Notifications, next to a table that sums up where each thing reaches you. They're yours, not the organisation's: the alert belongs to the organisation, but the inbox belongs to each person. Switching one off doesn't leave your teammates without it.
- Daily alerts email. If you switch it off you still have the alerts on the website; what you stop getting is the email. The unsubscribe link at the foot of the email switches off this and nothing else, in one click.
- Changes to what I follow. Rules, documents, gazette notices, decisions and new rounds of what you follow or manage. Date changes and window openings aren't switched off here: they're too important.
- Deadline reminders. Closing dates, representations, reporting, expected decisions, tasks and execution.
- New calls that fit you. Every Monday, the week's new calls that fit your profile well (60% or more), five at most and leaving out the ones you already follow or have discarded. They go inside that day's email, never in a separate one.
- Tips and reminders. A few emails, only when you're not on the site: your trial, unfinished work, calls that are closing and fit you. Two a week at most, and never on the same day as the alerts email.
The preferences filter what you see, not what gets written. The alert is created for the organisation just the same and each person sees what they've asked to see: if you switch the deadlines off and a teammate doesn't, the reminder is still there for them.
How far ahead the closing alert goes
Below the switches you choose to be alerted to the closing date 3, 7 or 14 days ahead. This setting belongs to the organisation and only its admins can change it: the reminder is one shared row, and it can't exist at fourteen days for one person and three for another. Changing it doesn't repeat a reminder that has already gone out. And whatever the number, the day before you're always alerted.
What can't be switched off
Two things aren't filtered by the switches: a date changing or the window opening on something you follow or manage, and anything urgent – closes today or tomorrow, representations or reporting due. By email they only stop if you switch off the whole daily email. Urgent doesn't mean “right now”: it goes out in the 8am email like the rest, just first.
Saving with the alerts off doesn't do much
Saving a call is, above all, asking us to watch it. With changes and deadlines switched off at the same time, that watching goes almost silent, and the dashboard says so instead of keeping quiet: the bell puts up “You don't have alerts turned on”, with a button to turn them on; and when you save a call a message pops up, “Saved, but you won't hear from us”, with the same button.