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

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Setup

  1. Go to the Notifications page 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.

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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 filter — see CSS & XPath Filters and Smart Filters.

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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
  • Team invitations, password resets, and other transactional mail you trigger yourself

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Testing

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

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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.

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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