Summary Notifications
Last updated: October 27, 2026
Span's summary notifications send digests to your inbox or a Slack channel, so you can follow target status, lapses, and team activity without opening the dashboard.
Why it matters
Managers and teams see problems where they already work. A lapse in a team target shows up in Monday's email or the team channel, before it becomes a larger issue.
How it works
Span offers three digests and a set of personal Slack alerts:
Notification | Delivery | Schedule | Who sees it |
|---|---|---|---|
Manager Target Digest | Daily or weekly, in a time zone you choose. It starts on Mondays at 9 AM when you turn it on yourself, or Tuesdays at 9 AM when Span subscribes you. | People whose teams, or the teams they manage, have adopted targets | |
Manager Weekly Wrap | Weekly, Mondays at 9 AM in your organization's time zone. The schedule can't be changed. | Managers of managers, when Workstreams is on for your organization | |
Team Slack digest | Slack channel | Daily or weekly, in a time zone you choose | Set per team by someone with the Manage Team Digests permission for that team |
Slack Alerts | Slack | When a target alert fires | Members of teams that turned the alert on |
Manager Target Digest: the current status of your teams' targets, with any lapses you may want to investigate.
Manager Weekly Wrap: a weekly roundup of insights, work that has been done, and people you may want to talk to.
Team Slack digest: a message to a channel of your choice listing actionable lapses and the status of each of the team's targets.
Slack Alerts: one switch per target alert your teams have turned on. You can switch off any you don't want.
Setup
Email digests
Go to Settings → Personal → Notifications.
Under Email, turn on Manager Target Digest or Manager Weekly Wrap.
For the Manager Target Digest, use Send to pick daily or weekly, the time, and your time zone.
Save your changes.
Personal Slack alerts
Go to Settings → Personal → Notifications.
Under Slack Alerts, switch off any alert you don't want. Alerts your teams haven't turned on appear greyed out.
Team Slack digest
Go to Settings → Team Settings and choose the team.
Under Slack Digest, pick the Digest Slack Channel.
Turn on Team Slack digest.
Use Send to pick daily or weekly, the time, and the time zone, then click Save Changes.
Using a private channel? Invite the Span Slack bot to the channel first. It then appears in the channel list.
Things to know
Span subscribes some managers for you. Managers of teams that have adopted targets are subscribed to the Manager Target Digest, and managers of managers to the Manager Weekly Wrap when Workstreams is on. Everyone else turns digests on for themselves. If you turn a digest off, Span doesn't turn it back on.
You only see digests that apply to you. If none of your teams has adopted targets, the Manager Target Digest and Slack Alerts don't appear. If you don't manage other managers, or Workstreams is off, the Manager Weekly Wrap doesn't appear.
Team Slack digests need targets and Slack. The Slack Digest section appears for teams without sub-teams that have adopted targets, and your Slack workspace must be connected to Span.
An archived channel stops the digest. If the digest channel is archived or deleted, Span stops sending and the setup banner returns. Pick a new channel to resume.
Schedules use the time zone you pick. For example, a Manager Target Digest set to weekly, Monday at 9:00 AM, America/New_York arrives at 9:00 AM Eastern every Monday, which is 14:00 UTC in winter.
Turn a digest off at any time with its switch. Your schedule is kept if you turn it back on.
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Need help?
Contact your Span account team or reach out to support@span.app.