---
title: Notifications
description: Real-time alerts for important company announcements
---

Firmreader delivers notifications across multiple channels so your team never misses an important update.

## Notification types

| Type | When it's sent |
|------|---------------|
| New post | A new post is published in a subscribed channel |
| Mention | Someone mentions you in a post or comment |
| Comment | Someone comments on your post |
| Urgent | An admin publishes an urgent announcement |
| Digest | Scheduled summary of recent activity |

## Delivery channels

### Push notifications

Available on iOS, Android, and desktop apps. Users can configure push notifications per channel:

- **Immediate** — Notification sent as soon as the post is published
- **Batched** — Notifications grouped and sent hourly
- **Off** — No push notifications for this channel

### Email digest

Email digests summarize recent posts. Available frequencies:

- **Real-time** — One email per post
- **Daily** — Summary sent each morning
- **Weekly** — Summary sent Monday mornings
- **Off** — No email notifications

### In-app

In-app notifications always appear in the notification bell in the top nav. These cannot be disabled and serve as the baseline notification method.

## Priority levels

Posts can be published with different priority levels that affect notification behavior:

| Priority | Behavior |
|----------|----------|
| Normal | Follows user's notification preferences |
| High | Highlighted in feed, badge count incremented |
| Urgent | Bypasses all preferences, sends immediate push and email to all subscribers |

<Note>
Only workspace admins and channel admins can publish urgent posts. Use this sparingly — overuse reduces its effectiveness.
</Note>

## Quiet hours

Users can set quiet hours in **Settings > Notifications > Quiet Hours**. During quiet hours:

- Push notifications are silenced
- Email digests are delayed until quiet hours end
- Urgent posts still break through quiet hours

## Notification preferences

Each user controls their own preferences at two levels:

1. **Global defaults** — Applied to all channels unless overridden
2. **Per-channel overrides** — Custom settings for specific channels

Access these at **Settings > Notifications**.