Notifications overview
When an alertAlertOne rule that watches the stock of one variant, or one Assemblified item, at one location. When the available stock is at or below the alert's threshold, Alertified notifies the alert's recipients on the channels it uses. Read more → fires, Alertified sends a notification to each channelChannelA place Alertified sends notifications: Email, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Webhook or ntfy. You connect channels in Settings and choose for each alert which ones it uses. Read more → the alert uses. You set channels up in two places: in Settings, where you connect a channel for your shop, and on each alert, where you choose which of the connected channels it uses.
Connected channels in Settings
Section titled “Connected channels in Settings”Settings has one tab per channel: Emails, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Teams, Webhook and ntfy. Each channel tab shows a Connected or Not connected badge.
- Email needs no connection. It is always available. The Emails tab holds your saved emailsSaved emailsYour shop's list of reusable email addresses, kept on the Emails tab in Settings. The create page offers them as recipients and pre-selects the ones you used most recently. Read more → , the addresses you pick from when you create an alert.
- Every other channel is connected once for your shop: one Telegram chat, one Discord webhook, one Slack webhook, one Teams webhook, one custom webhook and one ntfy topic.
- To change a connected channel, click Disconnect on its tab, then connect it again with the new details.
The channels each alert uses
Section titled “The channels each alert uses”Each alert keeps its own list of channels.
- When you create an alert, Notification channels shows Email and every channel connected in Settings. All of them start selected. Click a channel to turn it off for this alert.
- When you edit an alert, you change its channels under Notification channels. Bulk edit offers Update notification channels for several alerts at once. An alert needs at least one channel.
- An alert you created before you connected a channel keeps its channels until you edit it. To add the new channel to existing alerts, edit them, or select them and use bulk edit.
- If you disconnect a channel, alerts keep it in their list but send nothing to it while it is disconnected. Once you connect it again, they use it again.
What gets sent
Section titled “What gets sent”- One message per alert per channel.
- One email per recipientRecipientAn email address an alert sends to. Each alert has its own recipients, and each recipient gets their own email. Read more → . An alert with three email addresses sends three separate emails.
- No digests. Alertified does not group alerts into a summary.
- Once until re-armed. An alert notifies once when stock reaches its threshold. It notifies again only after stock rises above the threshold and falls again. See How alerts fire.
Alerts are checked when Shopify reports a stock change for the item at that location.
The seven channels
Section titled “The seven channels”| Channel | Settings tab | What you need | |---|---|---| | Email | Emails | One or more email addresses on the alert. Nothing to connect. | | Telegram | Telegram | A Telegram account. You connect it with a link from the app. | | Discord | Discord | A Discord server where you can create webhooks, and the webhook URL. | | Slack | Slack | A Slack workspace where you can add an app with incoming webhooks, and the webhook URL. | | Microsoft Teams | Teams | A Teams channel where you can add a workflow, and the workflow’s webhook URL. | | ntfy | ntfy | The ntfy app on your phone and a topic name. No account needed. | | Webhook | Webhook | Your own HTTPS endpoint that accepts JSON. |
See also
Section titled “See also”- Create an alert — choose the channels for a new alert.
- How alerts fire — when an alert notifies and when it re-arms.
- Testing a channel — check a connection and read a failed test.
- Logs — see what was sent and what failed.