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Notifications

Loom tells you when something needs your attention, for example when your leave is approved or an expense report is sent back.

Reading your notifications

Click the bell at the top right. A number on it shows how many are new.

  • Click a notification to open the leave request, report or trip it is about.
  • Click Mark all read to clear the number.

The notifications panel

What Loom tells you about

When How
Your leave is approved or rejected Notification, email and phone
Your leave request moves to another approver or to HR Notification and email
Your expense report is approved, rejected or paid Notification, email and phone
A decision on your trip Email, to the person who created the trip

Loom does not notify you when a timesheet is approved or rejected. Check its status in Timesheets.

Choosing how you are told

  1. Click the bell, then Notification preferences.
  2. For each kind of notification, switch each channel on or off: In-app, Email, Push (your phone) and Slack.
  3. Click Save changes.

Notifications marked Required cannot be switched off.

Send test notification checks that notifications reach you.

On your phone

Notifications on the phone

Tap the bell at the top of the Home tab. To choose what reaches your phone, tap your initials at the top right, then Settings › Notifications.

The first time you sign in on your phone, it asks whether Loom may send you notifications. Choose Allow if you want them.