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NOTIFICATIONS SETTINGS [EMAIL, SMS, WHATSAPP & TELEGRAM]

IsleBooks can notify your customers and your team over Email, SMS, WhatsApp and Telegram. Customer messages are driven by per-event templates; staff notifications are a separate per-user channel.

Notification templates (what customers receive)

Go to Settings → Notification Templates. For each event (new sale, payment received, and so on) you can customise the Email subject/body, the SMS text and the WhatsApp text, using placeholders that fill in the customer's name, invoice number and amounts. Each channel has its own auto-send toggle per event.

Email

Emails are sent from the IsleBooks platform sender by default — nothing to configure. To send from your own address/domain instead, add your SMTP details under Settings → Business Settings → Email.

SMS

SMS uses your own MsgOwl account: enter your MsgOwl access key and your Sender ID (up to 11 characters, e.g. your shop name) under Settings → Business Settings → SMS. Once saved, events with SMS auto-send enabled will message your customers automatically.

WhatsApp (separate module)

WhatsApp is its own module and does not use the SMS gateway:

  • Go to Settings → Notification Channels → WhatsApp.

  • Connect your WhatsApp number — you verify it with a one-time code sent to that number.

  • Choose which business events you want pushed to you (for example stock expiry alerts, customer portal payment submissions, invoice payment submissions).

  • You can also send an invoice to a customer on WhatsApp manually from the sale's row actions in POS Orders / Sales.

Telegram (separate module)

Telegram works the same way: Settings → Notification Channels → Telegram, connect the IsleBooks bot to your account, and pick the events you want.

One channel per person

Each staff member chooses one personal channel — Telegram or WhatsApp — and all their notifications (their own and business events they're subscribed to) are delivered there.

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