# Set up notifications for a feedback process

Your feedback process is set up, the participants are planned, and launch is near. Before the first emails reach your employees, it pays to walk through the notifications: are the texts, the recipients, and the reminder rhythm right? You can't break anything doing this. Invitations only go out once the edition's send time is reached or you invite manually.

## Step 1: Open the Notification Center

Open the settings of the feedback process, scroll to the "Edit email texts" section, and click the **"Notification Center"** tile.

![Open the Notification Center](/attachments/guides/benachrichtigungen-fuer-einen-feedback-prozess-einrichten/center-oeffnen.png)

More on this: Open the settings: /en/c/feedbacks/open-settings

## Step 2: Check the invitations

Expand **"Invitation & reminders"**. You see the preconfigured rules, split by perspective: "Invitation (self-assessment)" for the person being reviewed and "Invitation (external assessment)" for the supervisor or other reviewers. For each invitation, check:

* Does the text fit the audience? Click "Edit" and adjust the subject and content in the **Content** tab. Placeholders such as `[First name]` fill in the recipient's data automatically.
* Are the recipients right? By default, the invitation goes straight to the reviewer. You can change that in the **Recipients** tab.

![Check the invitations](/attachments/guides/benachrichtigungen-fuer-einen-feedback-prozess-einrichten/regeln-pruefen.png)

More on this: Design content and use placeholders: /en/c/notifications/content-and-placeholders

## Step 3: Adjust the reminder rhythm

By default, easyreview reminds outstanding participants after 7 and after 14 days. Anyone who has submitted their participation is no longer reminded. If you want different intervals, open the relevant reminder rule, switch to the **Settings** tab, and change the days in the SENDING section. If you don't need a second reminder, turn the rule off using the checkbox in its row.

More on this: Set up reminders for feedbacks: /en/c/feedbacks/set-up-feedback-reminders

## Step 4: Check the sealing and completion emails

If your feedback process uses sealing, the center also shows the "Confirm sealing" and "Sealing completed" types. Under "Completion" you find the notifications for completed feedbacks and participation groups; these are off by default. Turn on whatever you need and adjust the recipients — for example, a copy to the supervisor via the hierarchy assignment.

More on this: Sealing: /en/c/feedbacks/sealing

## Step 5: Preview and test send

Open a rule and use the preview area in the **Content** tab:

* **"Show preview"** renders the email directly in the browser, with sample data in the placeholders.
* **"Send Preview"** sends a test email to your own address.

![Preview and test send](/attachments/guides/benachrichtigungen-fuer-einen-feedback-prozess-einrichten/vorschau.png)

## Step 6: Set the send time for the invitations

When the invitations go out is not controlled by the Notification Center but by the edition: set the date and time in the edition settings, or invite manually. The reminder countdown also starts once the invitation has been sent.

More on this: Set up automatic email invitations: /en/c/feedbacks/set-up-automatic-email-invitations

## Step 7: After go-live: verify delivery

Once invitations have been sent, the **Delivery Log** (button at the top right of the center) shows every email sent, with recipient and status. At a glance you can tell whether everything was delivered.

More on this: Check whether an email was sent: /en/c/notifications/delivery-log