# Manage notifications

## What are notifications?

Pave sends notifications to keep you informed about activity across your account, including updates in Compensation Planning, Total Rewards, and Visual Offer Letter. Notifications can be delivered through three channels:

* **Email:** sent to the email address associated with your Pave account.
* **In-app:** appear in the notification menu inside Pave.
* **Slack (beta):** sent as direct messages through your company's connected Slack workspace.

Your organization's admin controls which notifications are available. Within those settings, each user can choose which notifications they want to receive and through which channels.

## Notification channels

### Email

Email notifications are sent from Pave to your account email. Each email includes a summary of the event and a link back to the relevant page in Pave.

### In-app

In-app notifications appear in the notification menu inside Pave. Each notification shows a title, how long ago it was sent, and a link to the relevant page. Unread notifications are marked with a red dot.

### Slack

When your admin connects Slack, notifications can also be delivered as Slack direct messages. Slack notifications are currently in beta.

## View your notifications

To view your notifications, click the bell icon in the top navigation bar. A dropdown menu appears with your recent notifications.

From this menu, you can:

* **Click a notification** to navigate to the relevant page in Pave. This also marks the notification as read.
* **Mark all as read** using the envelope icon in the top-right corner of the menu.
* **Open your notification preferences** by clicking the gear icon (see the next section).

If you have no notifications, the menu displays "You have no notifications."

## Manage your notification preferences

Each user can control which notifications they receive and through which channels.


1. Click the bell icon in the top navigation bar.
2. Click the gear icon in the notification menu header.
3. In the **Manage my notifications** modal, toggle each notification on or off per channel (email, in-app, Slack).
4. Click **Save**.

Notifications are grouped by category: Compensation Planning, Total Rewards, and Offer Letters. Each notification shows a title and a short description of what triggers it.

If a notification appears greyed out with a message that says "This setting has been disabled by your organization," your admin has turned off that notification at the company level. You cannot re-enable it from your preferences.

If you have admin-level permissions, the modal footer includes a **Manage org notifications** link that takes you directly to the admin notification settings page.

## Manage notification settings for your organization

Admins can control which notifications are available to everyone in the organization. When an admin disables a notification, it is turned off for all users and hidden from their individual preference modals.

To access the admin notification settings:


1. Go to **Settings > Notifications**.
2. The settings page displays all available notifications organized by category (Compensation Planning, Total Rewards, Offer Letters), with a column for each channel (email, in-app, Slack).
3. Check or uncheck the box for each notification and channel combination.
4. Click **Save**.

To discard your changes without saving, click **Cancel**. If you try to navigate away with unsaved changes, Pave prompts you to confirm.

### Permission required

The notification settings page requires a role with edit access to the Notifications permission. This permission can be added to any role. The default Admin role includes it.

## Connect Slack

An admin can connect Slack to enable Slack notifications for the organization.


1. Go to **Settings > Notifications**.
2. In the Slack column header, click **Add to Slack**.
3. Authorize the connection in the Slack OAuth window.

Once connected, the Slack column becomes available and you can enable or disable Slack delivery for each notification type. Individual users can then toggle Slack notifications on or off in their own preferences.

Slack notifications are currently in beta.

## Available notifications

The table below lists all notifications that can be configured in Pave, grouped by category.

### Compensation Planning

| Notification | Description |
|----|----|
| Mentions | Notifies the mentioned person when they are mentioned in a comment on an employee |
| Comments | Notifies the active planner when a comment is left for an employee in their worksheet |
| Employees ready for review | Notifies planners when employees are ready for review in their worksheet |
| Changes made to employees | Notifies planners when changes are made to employees they have submitted |
| Planning window start | Notifies planners with eligible employees when their planning window starts |
| Planning window reminders | Notifies planners with eligible employees when they have 5, 3, and 1 day(s) left in their planning window |
| Planning window end | Notifies planners with eligible employees when their planning window ends |

### Total Rewards

| Notification | Description |
|----|----|
| New reward letter | Notifies employees when they receive a new reward letter in their Total Rewards portal |
| New employee invitations | Notifies employees who have not created accounts to explore their Total Rewards portal |

### Offer Letters

| Notification | Description |
|----|----|
| Candidate viewed offer | Notifies recruiter and hiring manager when a candidate views their Visual Offer Letter |

## Things to know

* Pave marketing emails are managed separately from product notifications. Unsubscribing from product notifications does not affect marketing emails.
* Notifications are sent only to the relevant person. For example, when a comment is left on an employee in a Compensation Planning worksheet, only the active planner for that employee receives the notification, not all planners in the cycle.
* When an admin disables a notification, it is turned off immediately for all users. Users do not receive a notification about the change.
* New employee invitations (Total Rewards) are not shown in the user preference modal because they only apply to users who have not yet created an account.




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