Notifications page (for the organization)

Overview

This topic contains information and tasks about your organization's Notifications page.

Notifications page screenshot

You can set up Simplifile to send email notifications when packages are submitted, recorded, or rejected, or when a package that has already been recorded is changed in any way.

You can also set up Simplifile to send email notifications if recording fees exceed estimated fees by an amount you specify. The default is $50. For example, if estimated recording fees for a package are $250 and the actual cost to record is $310, the total amount is more than the estimate plus the $50 in the field. This triggers an email notification.

You can send email notifications to the package creator, the package submitter, or to email addresses you add manually. In the case of recording fees that are higher than the limit you set or packages that are corrected, you can also send an email notification to your Simplifile contact.

NOTE: Simplifile lets individual users request notification for the recording or rejection of packages during submission from the Packages page or the Package Details page.

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Open the organization's Notifications page

  1. In the navigation bar, click Organizations. The Organizations page open in the right panel.
  2. On the Organizations page, click the blue name of the organization whose email notifications you want to set up. The Organization Contact Information page opens and the navigation bar changes with the Contracts item selected.

    IMPORTANT: Be sure to choose your organization before you click Services on the navigation bar. Otherwise, you may see notification settings for Simplifile’s Collaboration and Post Closing module.

  3. In the navigation bar, click eRecording. The eRecording License page opens and the navigation bar changes with the License option selected.
  4. In the navigation bar, click Notifications. The Notifications page opens.

Send notifications when a recording fee is larger than the estimated fee by a specified amount

This lets the system send notifications when a recording fee is larger than the estimated fee by a specified amount.

  1. Open the organization's Notifications page.
  2. Scroll to the Enable email notifications when recording fee differ from estimated fees by more than the set threshold section.
  3. Review the default amount in the Fees outside this range are considered suspicious ([actual_fee ‑ estimated_fee] > X) field.

    IMPORTANT: The amount in this field should be the amount over the estimated fee that you are willing to pay without renegotiation. For information about setting the amount by which a county can correct an insufficient fee, see Set up an insufficient fee correction amount.

     
  4. If wanted, change the amount.
  5. Mark the boxes for the notifications you want the selected organization to receive.

    IMPORTANT: A check mark in a box indicates that the identified person or persons receive the email.

  6. If you mark a Send email notifications to the following addresses checkbox, enter the email address or addresses. Use commas to separate multiple email addresses.

Set the organization's notifications options

  1. Open the organization's Notifications page.
  2. For each type of notification you want to send, mark the boxes for the notifications you want the selected organization to receive.

    IMPORTANT: A check mark in a box indicates that the identified person or persons receive the email.

  3. If you mark a Send email notifications to the following addresses checkbox, enter the email address or addresses. Use commas to separate the email addresses.