The bell in the top bar collects your in-app notifications. Its unread counter shows how many items await you, capping at 9+ once you pass nine.

What reaches the bell

Nine kinds of event trigger a notification, each with its own sentence:

• A timesheet submitted for validation - “{who} submitted the {period} timesheet for validation”
• Your timesheet validated - “Your {period} timesheet was validated”
• Your timesheet rejected - “Your {period} timesheet was rejected”
• Your time-off request approved - “Your time-off request was approved”
• Your time-off request rejected - “Your time-off request was rejected”
• An expense you declared approved - “An expense you declared was approved”
• An expense you declared rejected - “An expense you declared was rejected”
• An expense you declared paid - “An expense you declared was paid”
• You were assigned to a mission - “You were assigned to {mission}”

Each row carries an icon for its family - calendar for timesheets, clock for time off, receipt for expenses, briefcase for assignments - alongside the sentence and how recently it arrived.

Reading and clearing

Clicking a notification marks it read and jumps to the relevant place: the timesheet itself, Time off, Expenses, or My assignments. Mark all read clears the badge entirely. The list refreshes automatically while you work, so new items appear without a reload, and an empty inbox reads “You’re all caught up.” The bell checks for new items in the background, so the unread count stays current even while the panel is closed.

Not the same as email

The bell covers in-app events only. Okouro also sends separate emails for invitations, password-change links, timesheet reminders, and payment problems on your subscription. Those arrive in your mailbox, not the bell.