Notifications in Current: the bell, email, and Teams

Current tries hard not to be noisy. The in-app bell catches everything in real time and always stays on. It's the one channel you can't turn off, because it's the one place you should always be able to check. Email and Microsoft Teams are optional add-on channels you choose per event type.

Since October 10, 2026 every notification and every confirmation appears in the same place: top right, directly under the bell, on every page, Settings included. Nothing pops up from the bottom of the screen any more.

• A pop-up shows for 5 seconds with one action (Open, Approve or View) and a thin bar that drains while it shows.
• Rest your pointer on it and it waits for you. The X sends it away at once.
• When its time is up it shrinks and flies into the bell. A notification becomes the newest row there and adds one to the unread count, so nothing is lost by looking away.
• A confirmation with Undo (after you mark something done, remove a row or move a record) uses the same spot. Undo stays for 10 seconds, and the bar drains over that time instead.
• If your device is set to reduce motion, pop-ups fade in and out instead of sliding and flying.

Click the bell to see everything, newest first. Unread shows only what you haven't handled, with the count beside it. All shows everything, including the confirmations that flew in since you opened Current, in case you want to read one again; a confirmation never counts as unread. Click a row to open what it is about. Mark one read from its row, and the pop-up that follows offers Undo in case you clicked the wrong one. Mark all read clears the list in one go.

• In-app bell, always on, shows every notification the moment it happens.
• Email, beautifully formatted alerts sent to your inbox for the event types you choose.
• Microsoft Teams, get @mentioned directly in the project's Teams channel, for teams that live in Teams day-to-day.

1. 1
   Open your notification preferences

   Click your initials in the top corner of Current and choose Notifications, or open Settings › Your settings › Notifications and press Change what you get. Both open the same dialog.
2. 2
   Turn on the channels you want

   Toggle email and/or Teams delivery on. The bell stays on regardless.
3. 3
   Choose your event types

   Pick which events reach you beyond the bell: weekly summary, new assignments, project alerts, mentions, comments, cleared-to-start, and won quotes. If you have CRM access, you'll also see lead, opportunity, campaign, import, and sync-health events grouped separately, plus Buying signals: the 7:00 weekday email listing new buying signals on the companies you own (and the whole team's, if you lead sales).
4. 4
   Save

   Your choices apply immediately, no need to log out or refresh.

When someone @mentions you in a comment, or replies on a task or partner conversation you're part of, that fires a notification right away, to the bell always, and to email if you've turned mentions or comments on. Comments on a partner-facing conversation use a version of the alert that never exposes internal staff details, so it's safe even when a partner is on the other end of the thread.

Hot ticket alerts reach the owners of a company when one of its tickets is urgent, a security incident, unhappy or a billing complaint. Executive is shown as context and never alerts on its own, and a ticket a machine opened never alerts, even with a Critical priority. Urgent and security incidents email at once, at any hour. You get at most 5 instant alert emails a day; the rest, and unhappy or billing tickets on a company with no account manager, join one daily email at 7:00 in your workspace's time zone. Repeats on the same company fold into one alert ("+N more tickets"). Alerts come to the bell and by email. Once your workspace's Teams bot is connected they come as a Teams chat instead, with email only when Teams cannot reach you: the one alert where the two channels back each other up. Switch off Hot ticket alerts in the same dialog to stop the email. See "Hot tickets: urgent and unhappy tickets reach the account owner".