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Notifications are not arriving

Work through the layers in order — your phone's permission, AirBill's master switch, the category, and the device itself — to find where notifications are being stopped.

A notification has to clear several gates before it reaches you. Work down this list — the first gate that’s closed is usually the whole answer.

  1. Check your phone's permission for AirBill

    Open your device settings, find AirBill, and check that notifications are allowed. This gate is outside AirBill: no setting inside the app can open it.

  2. Look for the banner in AirBill

    Open Profile → Notifications. If your phone is blocking them, the screen shows Notifications are turned off for AirBill with an Open settings button. That banner is a definitive answer — fix this before checking anything else.

    The banner “Notifications are turned off for AirBill” at the top of notification settings, with its “Open settings” action.
    This banner means your phone is blocking AirBill's notifications — no in-app setting can override it.
  3. Check the master switch

    Still on that screen, check Allow notifications at the top. With it off, no category sends anything.

  4. Check the category you're waiting on

    Under Notify me about, expand the group that covers what you expected — Invoices, Documents, Connections, or Accountant. A group can be on while the category you care about is off.

When the settings all look right

  • Check the right device. The master switch, categories, and detail setting follow your account, but each phone still needs its own notification permission and a working registration. A phone you’ve signed out of no longer receives your notifications.
  • Check the right business. Notifications follow the business the event happened in.
  • Check focus and battery modes. Focus, Do Not Disturb, and low-power modes can hold notifications back at the system level.
  • Reopen AirBill. The app re-checks your phone’s permission when it returns to the foreground.

Still nothing? Contact support from Profile → Support and mention which notification you expected and when.

Common problems

A banner pops up in the app but nothing when it's closed

Show banners while using the app is a separate setting from the categories — see Manage notification settings.

A colleague gets them and you don't

Start with your phone’s own permission, since that’s the layer that differs per handset.

You only miss the email-document summaries

Those arrive as a twice-daily summary rather than one notification per document, so a quiet stretch is expected.

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