Admin > Vendor Rating settings > Vendor Rating notifications

This page provides an overview of all current standard notifications regarding Vendor Rating. Here it is possible to set various notifications.

While adding or editing a notification, there are various properties that you can define. The meaning of each setting is explained in the table below.

Setting	Explanation
Notificatie Active	Indicates whether the notification is active. If a notification is not active, the notification will not be sent.
Notification moment	The type of notification (e.g. end of contract).
Period before notification moment number	The number of times the chosen unit at 'Period before notification period'.
Period before notification period	The type of period (day, month, year etc).
Mail to managers	Determines whether notifications are sent to the contract manager(s).
Default recipient	Determines who or which e-mail address receives a notification by e-mail as standard.
Subject e-mail	The subject of the e-mail notification.
Description e-mail	The content (body) of the e-mail notification.

Notificatie typen 

All notification types are explained in the table below.

Notification type	Action	Available VL Tokens
End of Vendor rating	An email to the notification user (if checked) and the default recipient (if selected) when the selected period before the end of the vendor rating has expired. Period settings, 'Mail to user signal', 'Subject e-mail' and 'Description e-mail' are mandatory.	[VL:VENDORRATINGNAME] [USER:DISPLAYNAME] [VL:VENDORRATINGENDDATE]
End of Survey	An email to the notification user (if checked) and the default recipient (if selected) when the selected period has elapsed before the end of the survey. Period settings, 'Mail to user signal', 'Subject e-mail' and 'Description e-mail' are mandatory.	[VL:SURVEYNAME] [USER:DISPLAYNAME] [VL:SURVEYENDDATE] [VL:URLLINK]*
Creation of Planned Vendor Rating	When a scheduled Vendor Rating is created, an email will be sent to the user who has set the schedule. Period settings are not supported with this notification.	n/a
Automatic survey reminder before end of survey date	An email to the respondents in the survey group, and the default recipient (if selected) when the specified period before the end of the survey has elapsed. The 'Number of periods', 'Period', 'E-mail subject' and 'E-mail description' fields are mandatory.	[VL:SURVEYSUBJECT] [VL:SURVEYNAME] [VL:SURVEYENDDATE] [VL:VENDORRATINGNAME] [VL:SIGNALUSER] [VL:SURVEYTEXT]*
Audit reminder to vendor	An email to the email address to which the initial audit invitation was sent, and the default recipient if selected when the specified period has passed after the audit start date. The fields 'Number of periods' and 'Period' are mandatory. The fields 'E-mail subject' and 'E-mail description' are not used. For the e-mail content, the set audit reminder mail in Admin > Vendor Rating settings > Audit default settings > Audit e-mail settings is used.

* = can only be used in the e-mail description