# Notifications

Your in-app notification feed — everything the association or the system
has sent you, in one place, with filters and read/unread tracking.

> **A note on this guide:** written by actually viewing a real resident's
> notification feed and interacting with it directly — marking a real
> notification as read and confirming the unread count changed, then
> reverting that one notification back to unread afterward so the account
> was left exactly as found (still showing its original 6 unread of 8
> total). No destructive actions were tested (there's no delete on this
> page), so there was little else to clean up.

🎥 **See this in the walkthrough video:** [Resident Walkthrough, starting at 0:15](https://myaccount.joantool.com/demo.php?video=resident&t=15)

## 1. What shows up in the feed

Click **🔔 Notifications** in the sidebar (the badge next to it shows your
current unread count). Each entry shows:

- An icon and type tag — **Board Announcement**, **Maintenance Update**,
  **Payment Reminder**, or **Vote Open**, confirmed as the real, currently
  possible types for this account (the type filter dropdown only lists
  types that have actually happened, not a fixed master list).
- A title and message — confirmed against real examples: a payment
  reminder ("HOA Dues Due in 7 Days"), a past-due follow-up ("Final
  Notice: HOA Dues Past Due"), a maintenance status change quoting the
  actual update note a board member left, a new vote announcement, and
  routine board announcements (pool hours, a gate code reset, a
  landscaping schedule).
- How long ago it happened (e.g. "1d ago," "3w ago").
- A **📧 emailed** tag on notifications that were also sent to your email,
  not just posted in-app — some notifications (like the two HOA Dues
  reminders in this test) are in-app only.
- A **View →** button on notifications tied to something specific to go
  look at — confirmed directly: a payment reminder's View button takes
  you straight to Payments.
- Either a **✓ Read** button (unread items) or plain text reading
  **"Read [when]"** (already-read items) — this is easy to misread as two
  different label styles for the same thing, but it's actually an action
  vs. a status: unread notifications get a clickable button, read ones
  get a timestamp instead.

## 2. Marking things read

Click **✓ Read** on any single notification to mark just that one read —
confirmed directly: the sidebar badge and the "(N unread)" count at the
top both dropped by one immediately, and the button was replaced by a
"Read [x] ago" timestamp in place.

**Mark All Read** (top right) marks everything read at once. This wasn't
tested directly in this pass, to avoid marking this account's real,
otherwise-untouched notifications as read — but it's the same underlying
action as the per-item button, just applied to everything at once.

## 3. Filtering the feed

Two dropdowns, both confirmed working directly against real data:

- **Type filter** — narrow to just one type (Board Announcement,
  Maintenance Update, Payment Reminder, Vote Open). Filtering to Payment
  Reminder on this test account correctly dropped the list from 8 total
  down to the 2 real payment reminders.
- **Read/Unread filter** — All, Unread, or Read. Filtering to Unread
  correctly showed exactly the 6 unread items.

Once either filter is active, a **Clear** link appears to reset back to
the full list.

## 4. Notification preferences

There's no settings/preferences control on this page itself — what
triggers a notification and whether it also emails you is controlled
from **⚙ Profile Settings**, under **Notification Preferences** (covered
in full in
[New Resident Onboarding](new-resident-onboarding.md#5-complete-your-profile)).
This page is purely for viewing and managing what's already arrived.

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That's the whole page: a real feed of what's happened on your account,
filterable by type or read status, with per-item or bulk read-marking —
confirmed working exactly as described, no findings from this pass.