> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sitespy.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Email Notifications

> Set up email alerts for website changes

Email notifications send you a report when your watched pages detect changes. Available on all plans, including Free.

## Setup

1. Go to the [Notifications page](https://sitespy.app/dashboard/notifications) in the dashboard
2. Click **Enable Notifications**
3. Check your inbox for a verification email
4. Click the verification link

Once verified, you'll see a green "Verified" status next to your email.

Verification is required for more than notifications: until your account email is verified you cannot create watches at all, and the API rejects the attempt.

New accounts get a 7-day grace period in which change notifications are delivered to the unverified address, with a reminder to verify. After that window, alerts to an unverified address are dropped.

## How many emails you can get

Each watch has a delivery ceiling of **4 notifications per hour and 24 per day**. It applies per watch, not per account.

Changes above the ceiling are not lost — they are counted, and the next delivered notification says how many were held back, for example `(+6 more changes this hour)`. A page that changes every few minutes therefore emails you a couple of dozen times a day at most instead of hundreds of times.

If a watch is consistently hitting the ceiling, the fix is usually a narrower selector — point at exactly what you care about in the [picker](/docs/dashboard/element-picker), or see [CSS & XPath Filters](/docs/dashboard/css-xpath-filters).

## Other emails Site Spy sends

Besides change notifications and address verification, your account may receive:

* A welcome email after you verify
* Setup tips a few days after signing up
* A note when you reach your plan's watch limit
* A reminder if your watches have been running unread for a week
* Trial-ending and trial-ended notices
* Health alerts when one of your watches breaks — see [Watch Health](/docs/dashboard/watch-health)
* Team invitations, password resets, and other transactional mail you trigger yourself

## Testing

After verification, click **Send Test Email** to confirm delivery. Check your spam folder if the test doesn't arrive within a few minutes.

## Disabling

Click **Disable Notifications** to stop receiving emails. You can re-enable at any time — no need to re-verify if your email hasn't changed.

## Troubleshooting

* **No verification email?** Click **Resend Verification** and check your spam folder
* **Feature not available?** Try refreshing the page or contact support
* **Notifications stopped after a while?** Check whether the watch is hitting the hourly or daily ceiling above, and whether the watch itself is failing — a broken watch cannot report changes