Venvera keeps you informed through in-app notifications and a set of automated deadline reminders. Notifications are personal to you, and the most important regulatory clocks can also reach you by email once your administrator has enabled it.
The notification bell
A bell icon sits in the top bar on every page. An unread badge shows how many notifications are waiting; the inbox refreshes about once a minute. Open it to read your notifications, mark one as read, or mark them all as read. Notifications are scoped to you, so you only ever see your own.
What triggers a notification
| Event | Type | In-app | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A task is assigned or reassigned to you | task_assigned | Yes | No |
| A policy is awaiting your approval | policy_approval | Yes | No |
| A shared policy becomes available to your group | policy_shared | Yes | No |
| Control evidence is expiring or has expired | reminder | Yes | No |
| An incident regulator clock is approaching or breached | deadline | Yes (also fires an outbound webhook) | No |
| A GDPR Article 33 72-hour breach clock | deadline | Yes | Yes |
Deadline reminders
Three automated scans run in the background and raise reminders as deadlines approach:
- GDPR breach 72-hour clock - runs frequently through the day; an in-app notification to all admin and editor users, and an email to them too when Email reminders is turned on.
- Incident regulator clocks - the DORA 4-hour, 24-hour, 72-hour, and 1-month stages; in-app plus an outbound webhook, no email.
- Evidence expiring - runs nightly; in-app only.
Time-based reminders escalate through three stages as the deadline nears: a warning at roughly half the window, urgent at three quarters, and overdue once the deadline has passed. Duplicate deadline reminders are suppressed so you are not notified repeatedly for the same clock.