Notification Center

The Notification Center is where all your Aura notifications live. You can get to it by clicking the bell icon in the top navigation bar.

The bell icon and panel

When you have unread notifications or active account alerts, a red badge appears on the bell showing the combined count (unread notifications plus any active account alerts), capped at "99+". The badge only shows while the panel is closed. The bell icon also gives a quick wiggle whenever that count is above zero.

Notifications arrive over a live connection, so the badge and panel update automatically as new items come in - you don't need to refresh the page.

Opening the panel

Click the bell to open the panel. On desktop, it appears as a dropdown anchored to the bell. On mobile, it takes up most of the screen with a backdrop overlay and its own close button. Clicking outside the panel closes it.

Inbox and Archived tabs

The panel has two tabs at the top:

Inbox - your primary notification feed, where new notifications arrive. The tab shows an unread-count badge (capped at "99+").
Archived - notifications you've archived. The tab shows an archived-count badge (capped at "99+").

Time grouping

Notifications in both tabs are organized under time-based headers:

Today
Yesterday
Earlier This Week - the past 7 days
Last Week - 8–14 days ago
Earlier This Month - older items from the current month
Last Month - from the previous month
Month name (e.g. "March") - for older notifications within the current year
Month Year (e.g. "March 2025") - for notifications from previous years

Notification items

What each notification shows

Every notification shows:

A colored dot indicating its type (see Notification Types) - the dot is slightly larger for warnings and errors to draw your eye
The title, bold when unread and lighter once read
The message below the title, clamped to two lines
A relative timestamp on the right (like "5m", "2h", "3d")
A checkbox on the left for multi-select - hidden on global/update notifications, since those can't be selected for batch actions

Unread notifications sit on a lighter background than read ones.

Per-notification actions

Hover over a notification on desktop (or check below the message on mobile) to see its action buttons:

Mark read / Mark unread - toggles the read state. Available in both tabs.
Archive - moves the notification to the Archived tab. Inbox only.
Move to inbox - moves it back out of Archived. Archived tab only.
Delete - permanently removes the notification. Available in both tabs.

Global notifications (product updates broadcast to everyone) can only be marked read or unread - they can't be archived or deleted, and they never show a select checkbox.

Clicking a notification

If a notification has a link attached, clicking it:

Marks it as read (if it was unread)
Navigates you to the relevant page
Closes the panel

If it has no link, clicking it just marks it as read. While you're in multi-select mode, clicking a notification toggles its checkbox instead of doing either of the above.

Multi-select mode

Check the box next to any notification to enter multi-select mode. A selection bar sits above the list at all times, showing either "Select all", "N selected", or "All N selected" once you check the select-all box. From there you can:

Mark read - mark all selected as read (Inbox only)
Mark unread - mark all selected as unread (Inbox only)
Archive (Inbox) / Move to inbox (Archived) - archive or unarchive all selected
Delete - delete all selected
Clear selection - the X button, deselects everything

Selecting the select-all checkbox selects every notification on the current tab (global notifications are excluded, since they can't be acted on in bulk). Switching tabs automatically clears your selection.

Inbox - "All caught up!" with the subtext "No notifications right now."
Archived - "No archived items" with the subtext "Archived notifications will appear here."