{"id":5221,"date":"2020-11-05T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/?page_id=5221"},"modified":"2023-06-23T21:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:43:32","slug":"types-of-notifications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/types-of-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Notifications &#8211; Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Communication Methods:<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-how-message\/\">W2W internal <strong>Messaging<\/strong> system <\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Send an &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-urgent-text-alert\/\">Urgent Alert<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; message<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic schedules &amp; updates<\/strong> (see below)<\/li>\n<li>Send &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-auto-sched-week\/h-send-reminders\/\">Schedule Reminders<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Send <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-emp-view-edit\/h-alert-date-reminders\/\">Alert Date Reminders<\/a><\/strong> (ex for certifications)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Click to <a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-emp-view-edit\/h-view-emp-det\/\"><strong>Email<\/strong> directly<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Post bulletin to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-bulletin-board\/\">Bulletin Board<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Post notice on &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-notices-bb\/h-emp-notice\/\">Employee Home Page Notice<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-auto-sched-week\/h-adding-notes\/\"><strong>Weekly Schedule Notes<\/strong><\/a> (sent with automatic notifications)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-click-shift\/\"><strong>Shift Description<\/strong><\/a> details (sent with automatic notifications)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Each user can also set up &#8220;<strong>Automatic Notifications<\/strong>&#8220;<\/h2>\n<p>WhenToWork offers a number of ways for managers and employees to be automatically notified. Each user normally sets up their own notifications. For each address you enter you can choose which notices to send there.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Email Notifications<\/strong> &#8211; you can set up any number of emails and choose which option for each one.\u00a0 More:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-my-notifications\/\">My manager email notification options<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-edit-mgr-notifications\/\">Main manager setting up another manager&#8217;s notices<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-emp-view-edit\/h-edit-emp-det\/\">Manager setting up employee notifications\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Text Address Notices<\/strong> &#8211; you can set up any number of text address emails and choose which option for each one. More:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-my-notifications\/\">My manager text notifications options<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-edit-mgr-notifications\/\">Main manager setting up another manager&#8217;s notices<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/add-employee-text-address\/\">Manager setting up employee text notices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>In-app Push Notifications<\/strong> &#8211; in the Android and iOS app under More&#8230; you can choose which push notices to receive for each username you are logged into in the app. More:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/in-app-push-notifications\/\">Manager &amp; Employee in-app push notices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Google Calendar automatic shift reminders<\/strong> can be set up by employees\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/eh-google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Employee export to Google Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexa notifications<\/strong> for employees<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"extrawords\">notifications notifications notifications android ios\u00a0 message message\u00a0 automatically alert all users via text when there are schedule changes or messages<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication Methods: W2W internal Messaging system \u00a0 Send an &#8220;Urgent Alert&#8221; message Automatic schedules &amp; updates (see below) Send &#8220;Schedule Reminders&#8220; Send Alert Date Reminders&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/types-of-notifications\/\">More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Types of Notifications &#8211; Communications<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9743,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5221\/revisions\/9743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}