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title: "Messages and Notifications"
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# Messages and Notifications

When Beelocity has something to tell you — a record was saved, a sale could not be completed, a shift was closed — it says so in a small message that slides down from the **top of the screen** and disappears on its own.

These fleeting messages are for the action you just performed. Anything you should know about that happened *elsewhere* — an approval assigned to you, an invitation, an invoice going overdue — lands durably in [**your Inbox**](../your-inbox.html) instead, under the bell in the top bar, and waits there until you deal with it.

## One message at a time

There is only ever **one** of these messages on screen. If something else happens while a message is showing, the new message takes its place rather than piling up behind it. Repeating the same action — pressing **Save** three times on a form the server keeps rejecting — refreshes the same message instead of covering your screen with copies of it.

This means the message always shows **the most recent thing that happened**. When an action produces several results at once (for example a bulk delete where some rows could not be removed), Beelocity sums them up in a single sentence rather than reporting each one separately.

## How long it stays

| Message | Stays for |
| ------- | --------- |
| Something went wrong (red mark) | 8 seconds |
| Something succeeded (green mark) | 4 seconds |
| For your information | 5 seconds |

Errors stay longest because they are the ones worth reading twice. You can:

- **Hover over the message** to keep it on screen while you read it.
- **Close it immediately** with the **×** that appears when your pointer is over it.
- **Swipe it away** — up, left or right — on a touch screen.

Some messages carry a **button** underneath, for an action that follows naturally from what just happened. Pressing it runs the action and closes the message.

## What these messages are not

- **They never ask you to decide anything.** Anything that needs your confirmation — deleting a record, posting a document — opens a proper dialog with buttons, and waits for you.
- **They are not the place errors hide.** If a page itself fails to load, the page tells you so directly, and it stays on screen until the problem is resolved.
- **They never block your work.** The message floats above the page but does not take your clicks — you can keep typing, scrolling and clicking underneath it.

If a message disappears before you could read it, the action it referred to has still been carried out (or not) exactly as it said — reopening the record always shows you the real, current state.

Source: https://docs.beelocity.com/en/getting-started/notifications/index.mdx