Drift can send you notifications three different ways:

1. Email
2. Desktop (in the top or bottom corner of your screen, depending on OS)
3. Mobile push (You must have our iPhone or Android apps installed and be logged in in order for this to work)

You can view and update your notification settings here.  By default, you will get notifications to all of these channels.

You can get notifications to as many or as little of these ways as you'd like. And for browser notifications and mobile push notifications, you can choose whether or not to also get a sound along with them while you're in app.drift.com.

How and when notifications send

If you are not active, we'll notify you about any new messages through the notification channels you chosen (desktop, push, email). 

If you are active, we will send you browser notifications, but not push notifications (even if you have them enabled) because it means you're actively in Drift and it would be annoying for your phone to constantly buzz about conversations you're already answering.

Being active means that you have done something (moved your mouse, clicked a button, typed something) in app.drift.com within the last 20 seconds. 
If you are looking at the Drift app in an open browser tab, we'll send out the push notification  noise, but not the actual banner from the side of your screen.

For email, to avoid flooding your inbox, if any more messages are sent after the first email notification, we wait 15 minutes until the last message and then we'll send you an email with everything you missed in that conversation. In an ongoing conversation, we'll queue messages to notify you about every 15 minutes, with the final notification coming those 15 minutes after the last message. So you can expect one initial email, then emails every 15 minutes through the exchange if it's a continuous conversation.

FAQ about notifications

Do browser notifications work in all browsers?

Browser notifications work in Chrome and Firefox. 

How do I make sure I get browser notifications?

Browser notifications will appear at all times regardless of whether Drift is open in a browser and running in the background as long as you have the following setting turned on. If it is off, Drift will only send notifications if the app is open.