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Notification preferences

Decide what Exabloom pings you about, and where — in the app, by email, or both. Set your own preferences in seconds; admins get an extra layer to enforce or mute critical alerts across the whole team.
Where to find it
Everything here lives in Settings → Notifications. The personal preferences are open to everyone; the organisation override section shows only for admins.
Start here

The 60-second version

Open Settings → Notifications. You’ll see a short table of notification types, each with two switches: In-app and Email. Flip the ones you want; changes save as you go.

NotificationIn-appEmail
Channel disconnection alert
When a connected channel (e.g. WhatsApp) disconnects.
Lead assignmentNew
When a teammate assigns you to a lead.
Contact assignmentNew
When a teammate assigns you to a contact.
Settings → Notifications: one row per notification type, with separate In-app and Email switches. Everything starts on.

What you can be notified about

There are three notification types today. New ones get added to the same table over time, marked New when they appear.

Channel disconnection alert
A connected channel — WhatsApp, Telegram and so on — dropped, so nothing can reach your Inbox until it’s reconnected. The one you don’t want to miss.
Lead assignment
A teammate made you the owner of a lead — the deal is now yours to drive. A lead has one owner at a time, so this is a clear hand-off of responsibility.
Contact assignment
A teammate added you as a collaborator on a contact — often by @mentioning you in an internal note, which also gives you access to that contact. A contact can have several people assigned at once.
Lead vs contact — what’s the difference?
Lead assignment is about ownership — one person is made responsible for a deal in a pipeline. Contact assignment is about collaboration — you’ve been added to a person’s record so you can help work it, and a contact can have several people assigned. The most common way contact assignment happens is being @mentioned in an internal note, which assigns you and grants access in one step.

In-app vs email

Each type can reach you on two channels, and you control them separately:

  • In-app — a notification in Exabloom’s bell while you’re working.
  • Email — an email to your inbox, useful for alerts you need even when you’re not in the app.
Tip
A common setup: keep in-app on for everything, and reserve email for the alerts you can’t afford to miss — like a channel disconnection.
Admins only

Admin: enforce or block

Sometimes a notification is too important to leave to personal choice. On the same page, admins get an Organisation notification settings section to set a policy per type and channel.

Organisation notification settings
Channel disconnection alert · Email
No override
Users control their own preference.
Force on
Everyone receives it, regardless.
Force off
Block it for everyone, regardless.
Applies to all users — or pick specific people.
The admin override: choose a policy per notification, and apply it to everyone or just selected people.
  • No override — the default. Everyone keeps their own preference.
  • Force on — everyone receives it, even if they’d turned it off.
  • Force off — block it for everyone, even if they’d turned it on.
  • Either force can apply to all users or to selected people — pick names and the rest keep their own choice.
What forced users see
When you force a setting, the affected toggle on each person’s page is locked with a note that an admin enforced it. Set the policy back to No override to hand control back.

Good to know & pitfalls

  • Everything starts ON. Notifications are opt-out — you’ll receive each type until you turn it off, so new teammates are covered by default.
  • In-app and email are independent. Turn email off but keep the in-app bell on (or the reverse) for any type — they’re two separate switches.
  • A locked toggle is your admin’s doing. If a switch is greyed out with an amber note, an admin has enforced that setting for the organisation and you can’t change it yourself.
  • The disconnection alert is the one to keep. It’s how you find out customers can’t reach you. Leave it on unless someone else on the team owns reconnecting channels.
  • Your preference is per person. Changing your toggles only affects what you receive — not your teammates. Org-wide changes are the admin section’s job.

Need a hand?

Our Singapore-based team is one message away — happy to help you get set up.