How to set up basic notifications

Keep your invitees informed with basic email and text reminders before and after events.

Looking for advanced automation with emails and text messages? See our Workflows overview.

Before you begin

  • Owners, admins, and users can set up basic notifications for their event types.
  • Legacy Essentials plan users can only use default email notifications.

Enable or disable basic notifications

  1. From the Scheduling page, select the event type you want to update.
  2. At the bottom of the editor, select More options.
  3. Open the Notifications and workflows section.
  4. Find the notification you want to update, then select the  Edit_dots.png three dots next to it.
  5. Toggle the notification On or Off.
  6. Select Save changes.

Personalize email and text notifications

If you're on the Standard plan or higher, you can customize:

  • The subject line of a basic email notification
  • The body of a basic email or text message
  • The dynamic variables used in a message

To edit a notification message:

  1. From the Scheduling page, select the event type you want to update.
  2. At the bottom of the editor, select More options.
  3. Open the Notifications and workflows section.
  4. Find the notification you want to change and select the Edit_dots.png three dots > Edit.
  5. Update the message subject or body as needed.

To add a dynamic variable:

  1. From the Scheduling page, select the event type you want to update.
  2. At the bottom of the editor, select More options.
  3. Open the Notifications and workflows section.
  4. Find the notification you want to change and select the Edit_dots.png three dots > Edit.
  5. Select + Variables.
  6. Choose the variables you want to include.
  7. Select Save and close.