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title: "Notifications for approval periods"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/7TFJ/2445705291/Notifications%20for%20approval%20periods"
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## Reminders

![7pace-reminders.png](media://83eb50b3-98c3-4819-8f28-f5fba5b6bf07)

To assist in timely and accurate worklogs, **7pace Timetracker** includes the option to send email notifications to team members, reminding them of upcoming deadlines to submit their worklogs for approval. Enabling notifications requires the following: 

- You must create and enable [Approval periods](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/7TFJ/pages/2290122780).
- You must enable [Time approvals](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/7TFJ/pages/2290122780).

Once you’ve enabled both approval periods and time approvals for managers, notification settings will be available. To turn on and configure notifications: 

1. In Jira, click **Apps** in the left-hand panel. Click **7pace Timetracker**.
2. Click **Settings**.
3. Click **Approval periods**.
4. In the **Approval periods management** settings, confirm that you have created an approvals schedule and that **Time approval** is enabled.
5. Enable **Reminders** using the toggle.

### Reminder configuration

Once reminders have been enabled, you must configure them. Select the number of days previous to each deadline - 1, 3, or 7 days - and the specific time of day that the email should be sent. Once you have configured your notifications, click **Save**.

Notifications

### Email delivery and privacy settings

> ⚠️ If email notifications are not being received by a team member, they may have their email address privacy settings too restricted!

**7pace Timetracker** notifications must respect the privacy settings of individual users; if email notifications are not being received by a specific team member, it is likely that they have set their email address visibility to private ('**Only you and Admins**') in their profile settings. This setting might prevent 7pace from accessing that team member’s email address, and notifications will not be sent. 

To update these settings: 

1. In Jira, click your profile image in the upper right corner of the window and select **Account settings**.
2. Select the **Profile and visibility** tab at the top of the page.
3. Scroll down to the **Contact** section to view and edit **Email address** settings. Changes are saved automatically.

Updating this setting to a less restrictive value should enable notifications to be sent and received. For more information, see [https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-account/docs/update-your-profile-and-visibility-settings/](https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-account/docs/update-your-profile-and-visibility-settings/).

## Notifications

![7pace-notifications.png](media://36667f41-d30d-4237-9aa1-d17b472ddb9c)

You can set up daily email notifications:

- to notify managers about new submissions
- to notify contributors about submission status changes.

You can choose either or both options and set a time of sending the notifications.