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Notification Rules: Stay informed about important transport exceptions or milestones

The notifications feature makes it easier to spot exceptions and automatically communicate them to recipients of your choice (in the language of your choice), improving the efficiency in your daily operations.

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Written by Anita Smielowska

Notifications enable you to bring attention to various issues so you can take appropriate action at the right time. You can do this in reference to both multiple transports defined by a set of conditions of your choice as well as to a specific transport of your particular interest.

In the Visibility application, a dedicated section named "Notification rules" enables you to keep an eye on the details of created notification rules across multiple transports incl. who is getting notified at what time.

How it works

It’s all up to you - you define the transport and tracking conditions that have to be met. As soon as the conditions are met an e-mail notification is sent. Please note that no further notifications for the specific set of conditions will be sent unless a specific transport meets the conditions again.

Example: if you want to trigger a notification when the estimated delay time is bigger than 15 minutes, the notification will be sent as soon as this condition is met. If the next ETA update changes the estimation to e.g. 20 minutes delay - no further notification will be sent. But if the next ETA update indicates e.g. 10 minutes delay - and with another ETA update the estimated delay gets again bigger than 15 minutes - the notification e-mail will be triggered as now the transport meets the defined conditions again.

Please note that notifications will not trigger for transports that are already matching the notification conditions at the time of creation of the notification rule.

Notification recipients

For all available notification types the transport-level notification recipients can be provided.

For some of the notification types Transporeon Visibility allows to directly notify the stop contacts specified in the transport data. Notification email sent to stop contacts does not expose any information related to other stops of the specific transport. Please keep in mind that you are responsible for ensuring confidentiality when sharing the access.

Currently, notifying stop contacts is available for the following notification types:

  • Transport mode “Road transports”

    • When transport is delayed

    • When transport is approaching

    • When goods have been picked up or delivered

Notifications across multiple transports

Manage exceptions for a set of transports specified by the conditions of your choice. Get notified in real-time or let us notify the adequate recipients directly.

How to get started: create, edit and delete notification rules

How to create a new notification rule

  1. Go to the "Notification rules" section in the side menu

  2. Click on "Add notification rule" button in the right upper corner

  3. Define transport filters

    • Select transportation mode (applies only if your company uses Ocean or Air Visibility; if this it not the case the default transportation mode is “Road”)

    • Select notification type

    • Fill in possible mandatory fields (depending on the chosen notification type)

    • Optionally add further filters

  4. Provide notification recipients (e-mail addresses) and e-mail language

    For some of the notification types Transporeon Visibility allows to notify the stop contacts specified in the transport data. To use this functionality, tick the checkbox “Send a notification email to stop contacts” in the section “Recipients of stop-level notifications”.

  5. Provide rule name

  6. Click on "Save"

How to edit an existing notification rule

  1. Go to the "Notification rules" section in the side menu

  2. Select the notification rule you’d like to edit. Please note that you’ll be able to edit only notifications rules created by you (exception: Admin users can edit any notification rule)

  3. Edit the notification setup

  4. Click on "Save"

How to delete an existing notification rule

  1. Go to the "Notification rules" section in the side menu

  2. Select the notification rule you’d like to delete. Please note that you’ll be able to delete only notifications rules created by you (exception: Admin users can delete any notification rule)

  3. Click on "Delete" button

  4. Confirm the deletion

Notifications per specific transport

Notifications per specific transport are currently available for road transports only.

A specific transport is of particular interest to you? Stay up to date with what’s going on by configuring notifications for this specific transport only.

How to get started: create, edit and delete notification rules

How to create a new notification rule

  1. Open the detail view of the transport of your particular interest

  2. Click on the “Notifications” button

  3. If there is no notification rule configured yet for this transport, you’ll be asked to select the notification type. In case further notification rules exist already, click on the “Add notification rule” button and specify the notification type.

  4. Specify further notification type details

  5. Specify recipients (e-mail addresses) and e-mail language

  6. Click on “Save”

How to edit an existing notification rule

  1. Open the detail view of the transport of your particular interest

  2. Click on the “Notifications” button

  3. Select the notification rule you’d like to edit. Please note that you’ll be able to edit only notifications rules created by you (exception: Admin users can edit any notification rule)

  4. Edit the notification setup: notification trigger and its further details, recipients.

  5. Click on “Save”

How to delete an existing notification rule

  1. Open the detail view of the transport of your particular interest

  2. Click on the “Notifications” button

  3. Select the notification rule you’d like to delete. Please note that you’ll be able to delete only notifications rules created by you (exception: Admin users can delete any notification rule)

  4. Click on the “Delete” button

  5. Confirm the deletion

Available notification types

  • Transport mode “Road transports”

    • Custom filter notification (Custom filters)

    • When tracking did not start

    • When goods have been picked up or delivered

    • When transport is approaching

    • When transport is delayed

    • When tracking warnings occur

    • When temperature is out of range

    • When tracking is cancelled

  • Transport mode “Ocean transports”:

    • Custom filter notification (Custom filters)

  • Transport mode “Air transports”:

    • Custom filter notification (Custom filters)

Notification e-mail content

E-mail content is tailored to the selected notification type and contains adequate information without having to open the corresponding transport details. But of course, these details are easily accessible as the e-mail contains the publicly accessible link (no authorization required) to the respective transport or the respective stop (in case of notifications sent to stop contacts). This allows the e-mail notifications to be sent directly to recipients outside of your company.

Learn more about our specific notifications here: Road Notifications

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