Fill alerts and sounds
A toast when an order fills, and a chime if you want one. Alerts follow you around the workspace so you do not have to sit on one tab waiting.
What triggers an alert
Quanify raises an alert when a position on one of your connected accounts opens, changes or closes: an entry, a scale, or an exit. It does not matter what caused the fill: a strategy routed into the account, the copy trader mirroring into it, or an order you placed by hand at the broker. The toast says what happened and on which account.
Two behaviours are worth knowing so nothing surprises you:
- The first look is never announced. Opening the workspace while you are already holding positions does not fire a burst of alerts for trades that happened hours ago. Only changes from that point on are announced.
- A burst is one alert. When a single move lands across several accounts at once, you get one chime, not one per account. Followers on one leader never double up.
Turning them on
Sound is off until you turn it on. The speaker icon in the top bar and the Order fill sounds switch in Settings are the same switch shown in two places, so flipping either one moves both. Browsers refuse to play audio until you have interacted with the page, so if you load the workspace and immediately walk away, the first chime of the session may not sound; click anywhere once and it will.
Choosing a sound
The Settings notifications card lists the available alert sounds. Two controls per row, and they are deliberately separate:
- The small play button previews a clip.
- Selecting a clip is silent.
That separation is on purpose: working down the list to compare clips should not turn into a barrage of chimes. Preview as much as you like, then pick. Only the one clip you have selected is ever downloaded, and it is loaded once and reused, so leaving sound switched on costs nothing while nothing is filling.
Volume
Alert volume is set by clicking a level rather than dragging a slider, and the clip plays back at that level as you click it. You hear the difference while you are choosing instead of finding out during the next fill.
Alerts never change what trades
This is the important one. Alerts control the toasts and the chime and nothing else. Turning them off does not stop anything from trading, and turning them on does not arm anything. They are a read-out, exactly like Home is.
Equally, do not treat silence as confirmation. If you want to know what you are holding, open Home. An alert you did not hear is not evidence that nothing happened.
Alerts follow you
Alerts are raised at the workspace level rather than inside one tab, so you get them while you are on Connections, in the Cockpit or sitting on Settings. Each browser tab holding the workspace is its own workspace and raises its own alerts. Alerts stop when the workspace is closed; they are driven from the account snapshot in your browser, not pushed to you from the engine.
Email, browser and quiet hours
The Settings notifications card also shows email notifications, browser notifications, mobile push and quiet hours. Email notifications are marked Coming soon. Browser notifications and quiet hours are not active yet either: no native operating-system notification is raised and no schedule is applied to the chime. Mobile push needs the Quanify app, which is in beta with a waitlist. Today, the alert is the in-workspace toast and chime.
If you are not getting alerts
- Check the top-bar speaker, or the Order fill sounds switch in Settings.
- Confirm you have actually selected a sound. The switch being on with no clip chosen means no chime.
- Check your browser or system volume, and whether the browser has muted the tab.
- Remember the first snapshot is never announced: a fill that happened before you opened the workspace will not chime.