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Notification Engine

The right reminder, to the right person, on the right channel.

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A notification engine is invisible when it works and infuriating when it doesn't. BenchStep's engine routes each event to the right channel based on urgency and recipient preference. Course assigned? In-app and email. Live session in 15 minutes? Push notification. Certificate ready? Email with the PDF attached.

What it does for you

Concrete outcomes from this capability — not the marketing version.

Per-event channel preferences

Learners control which events reach them by email, which by push, and which stay in-app only.

Tenant-level template customization

Override the default email templates per tenant. Match your brand voice and visual identity.

Quiet hours respected

Push notifications honor learner-defined quiet hours. Email defers to scheduled digest where configured.

Admin alerts via webhook

Beyond user notifications, system events (failed payments, assessment violations) can route to Slack, Teams, or any webhook.

Going deeper

Notification fatigue is a real failure mode. Send too many alerts and learners turn them all off; send too few and important assignments get missed. The engine is built around configurable thresholds and bundling — five lesson updates in a day become one daily digest, but a live session reminder still cuts through.

Underneath, the engine is a queue with retries, dead-letter handling, and per-channel rate limits. Outage in your email provider doesn't lose notifications — they retry once the provider recovers, and learners see the backlog in-app immediately.

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