How to use notifications and notification settings

InVintory tells you about deliveries, imports, sensor alerts, wines to review, comments on your reviews and more. You read them in the notification centre behind the bell — on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web app — and you choose what you get, and where, in Notification settings.

Open your notifications

On iPhone, iPad and Android, tap the bell at the top of Home. A number on the bell shows how many notifications you haven’t read, up to 99+. Notifications are grouped by day, starting with Today, and unread ones have a shaded background.

iPhone, iPad & Android:  Home → bell

On the web app, the bell is in the header:

Point at the bell, or click it. The menu shows your newest unread notifications. When you close it, everything in it is marked as read.
Click View all to open the full Notifications page.
With nothing unread, clicking the bell goes straight to the Notifications page.

Web:  Bell → View all → Notifications

On a phone-sized screen, the web menu opens full screen.

Open what a notification is about

Tap or click a notification to mark it as read and go to what it’s about. Tapping a device notification on your phone opens the same place.

Notification	Opens
Review reminder	The Wines to review list
Delivery arriving, or a collaborator accepted a delivery	That purchase
Emailed receipt added, or needing a look	That purchase, or the draft to check
A collaborator added or removed bottles	Your collection activity, showing what that person did
Import received	Offers Cancel import, until our review starts. You are asked to confirm first
Import complete, with wines we couldn’t identify	View unidentified wines downloads the list of wines left out
Any other import update	The bottles in your collection
Monthly Vincent summary	A Vincent chat that asks about your trends for that month
Milestone year anniversary	That wine, or your bottles if there are several
Update about one wine you submitted	That wine’s page
A comment or reaction on your review	That review’s comments
An invitation to a collection or a wine club	Accepting the invitation
Club member bottle request (club staff)	The request: what was asked, the member, the bottles, their note, and a pickup time or shipping address when they gave one

Some notifications, such as sensor alerts, don’t link anywhere. Tapping one of those only marks it as read.

Mark as read or delete

Mark everything as read. Tap Mark all as read. On iPhone, iPad and Android it sits beside the first day’s heading; on the web it is at the top of the Notifications page. It only shows when you have unread notifications.
Delete one on iPhone, iPad or Android. Swipe left on the notification and tap Delete.
Delete one on the web. Hover over it, click the … button, then click Delete.
Stop that kind of notification. On iPhone, iPad and Android, swipe left and tap Turn off. It switches off that whole topic. Topics you can’t switch off don’t offer it.

Open notification settings

The quickest way, on every device, is the gear in the notification centre.

iPhone, iPad & Android:  Home → bell → gear

Web:  Bell → gear

You can also get there from your settings. On iPhone, iPad and Android it is Notifications under Preferences, beside Language. On the web, click your profile picture in the header, click Settings, then under Notifications click Notification settings, or use the Settings button on the Notifications page.

Turn notifications on or off

Each topic has a checkbox on iPhone, iPad and Android, and a switch on the web. Turn it off to stop that topic. Turn it back on to get it on its default channels again.
Open a topic with its arrow, then tick where you want to get it: In app, Email or Device notification (iPhone or Android). Each topic lists only the channels it can use.
If you untick every channel, the topic turns off.
To turn off every topic at once, tap Disable all at the top. When everything is off, the same button reads Enable all and turns every topic back on with its defaults.

If your phone blocks InVintory from sending notifications, the top of the page says You can’t receive device notifications. Tap Enable to allow them, or to open your phone’s settings if you turned them off there.

Choose when review reminders arrive

Make sure Reminders to write reviews is on, then open it.
Under Notify me, pick After 1h, After 2h, After 6h, After 12h or After 24h. The default is After 24h.
Or pick Specific day. Then choose a day of the week and set a time under At this time. The time uses your time zone.

Account and marketing

The Account and marketing section works as one card, New features, how-to guides and promotions. Open it to choose channels once for the whole section, Email and Device notification (iPhone or Android), and to tick the topics you want under Topics. System-critical notifications sit below it and can’t be turned off.

What you can get notified about

Section	Topic	What it covers
Your collection	Deliveries	A delivery is due to arrive soon
Your collection	Imports	Progress of imports from CellarTracker, Vivino or a spreadsheet
Your collection	Emailed receipts	A receipt you forwarded was added, or needs a look
Your collection	Temp and humidity sensors	A sensor reads outside 55–59°F (13–15°C) or 50–70% humidity, or its battery runs low. The range is the same for every sensor
Your collection	Database submissions	Wines you submitted were added, or data you reported as incorrect was updated
Your collection	Collaborator activity	Collaborators add bottles, remove bottles or accept deliveries
Your collection	Trend Summaries	Your Year in Review and monthly Vincent summaries are ready
Your collection	Milestone years	The anniversary of a milestone, when you have bottles from its year
Wine club	Club member bottle requests	A club member asked for a bottle. Shown to club staff
Reviews and social	Reminders to write reviews	Bottles you drank but haven’t reviewed
Reviews and social	Comments and reactions	Other people comment on your reviews, or react to your reviews and comments
Account and marketing	Product tips and reminders	Updates and nudges to get the most out of your collection
Account and marketing	Product updates	The monthly product newsletter about new features
Account and marketing	Beta testing and feedback	Chances to try features early and share feedback
Account and marketing	Deals and promotions	Emails about sales, partnerships and more

The Wine club section only shows if you work for a wine club. System-critical notifications cover account security, billing and purchases. These emails can’t be turned off. Invitations to a collection, and notices that someone joined your collection, always arrive too.

Wines to review

The Wines to review list shows every wine you removed as consumed, grouped by day.

Tap a review reminder to open Wines to review.
Tap Review next to a wine to write your review, or Continue to finish a draft.
Wines you’ve reviewed show Reviewed. Tap … next to one for View wine, View review or Review again.
On the web, click Show more to see older bottles. On iPhone, iPad and Android, keep scrolling.

Good to know

By default, Deliveries and Reminders to write reviews arrive in app and as device notifications. Tick Email to get them by email too. Imports and Temp and humidity sensors use all three channels from the start.
A sensor alert goes to everyone on the collection, and at most once a day for each sensor and reading.
When you write a review for a bottle you drank, its reminder is marked as read.
Several notifications of the same kind can be combined into one, for example “3 deliveries arrived”.
On iPhone and iPad, InVintory asks to send you notifications when you start a free trial. Android asks when you sign in or start a trial.

Next steps

How to track wine deliveries — where delivery notifications come from
How to review a wine — what to do from a review reminder
How to connect a sensor — pair the sensor that sends temperature and humidity alerts