The notification center
What the bell is for
Section titled “What the bell is for”The bell tells you, inside Garage+, about what happens without you: for example a customer answering a quote from their phone. It is available to every member of the garage, with no setting to turn on.
On a computer, the bell is at the top right of the page, always visible, on every screen. On phones and tablets, it is on the right of the top bar. A badge shows the number of unread notifications; beyond 9, it shows 9+. The badge updates by itself, without reloading the page.
Reading your notifications
Section titled “Reading your notifications”Click the bell to open the panel: it shows your 20 latest notifications, the most recent at the top. Unread notifications are in bold, with a dot.
- Clicking a notification opens the job concerned if you are allowed to view jobs; otherwise (or when no job is linked) it is only marked as read. In every case, the click marks it as read.
- Mark all as read clears all the badges at once.
- The Esc key closes the panel; the bell and the notifications can be reached with the keyboard.
If the item concerned has been deleted since, the notification simply shows Document deleted.
Who receives what
Section titled “Who receives what”A document notification is sent to the member who sent the signature request, as well as to the garage’s owners and administrators; the AI budget alert, to the members who have the View the garage’s AI usage permission (suspended members receive none). Everyone reads their own separately: marking a notification as read does not mark it for the others, and you never see a colleague’s.
What you will find there
Section titled “What you will find there”For now, three kinds of notifications:
- a document accepted online by the customer, for example “Jean Dupont accepted quote D-2026-0042 online”;
- a document declined online by the customer;
- the AI budget alert: “80% of this month’s AI budget is used”, at most once a month; clicking it opens the AI usage screen.
They will arrive with online approval of documents, coming soon. Other kinds will be added later.
How long they stay
Section titled “How long they stay”A notification is kept for 90 days, then deleted automatically, read or not. It holds no customer information: their name and the document number are read when it is displayed, and disappear if the customer is anonymized or the document deleted.