Alerts
How alerts work, what counts as a change worth telling you about, and what they will not do.
An alert watches a search and tells you when the records it returns change.
What counts as a change
A new record entering the search, and a change to a field on a record already in it — a deadline moving, an amount being revised, a status going from forecasted to active. Those are the events that alter a decision.
What does not trigger an alert is a re-verification that found nothing different. A record checked again and confirmed unchanged is good news and it is not news, and an alert that fired on every crawl would be an alert nobody reads.
What an alert does not do
It does not tell you a programme will open. Where a source publishes a forecast, the record carries it and the alert reports it appearing; we publish no predictions of our own.
It does not tell you that you are eligible. It reports what the fields say, and eligibility screening is the funder's.
Limits
Alert allowances are per plan and are stated on the pricing page. An alert is tied to a saved search, so saved searches is the place to start.
Every alert email carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing works without signing in.