On a computer the notification bell sits in the top bar. Phones and narrow browser windows have no top bar, so the bell floats instead: a round button in the top-right corner of the screen, above whatever page you are on. It stays put as you scroll and it is there on every ordinary page, so notifications are always one tap away.

Tap it to open your notifications. On a phone they arrive as a sheet that slides up from the bottom of the screen; on a wider window they drop down from the bell itself. Either way it is the same list, with the same actions, and the same View all notifications route into the full inbox.

When you have unread notifications, a blue badge sits on the corner of the bell with the number in it. Past ninety-nine the badge reads 99+ rather than growing, but the exact figure is still there for screen readers, which announce the bell with the real count, for example "Notifications, 245 unread". With nothing unread there is no badge at all.

The count is of things you have not read yet. It is not a to-do list and it does not have to be driven to zero. Work you actually owe lives in My Work, which keeps its own count and is the one you clear. The split is explained in My Work vs Notifications.

Expect the badge to drop as soon as you open the bell. Opening it marks the items it loaded as read, the same as it does on a computer, and anything that arrives while the panel is open is left alone. Read state is always reversible with Mark unread. See Notifications Inbox for the detail.

A handful of pages take over the whole phone screen and run their own header. A button floating over them would sit on top of their content rather than on top of chrome, so on these the bell steps aside:

• Team Chat
• Email
• Calendar
• Laureo AI
• My Work
• Goals
• Service inbox
• A report you are viewing
• Notifications itself, where a shortcut to the page you are on would be pointless

Added to your home screen, the CRM runs without the browser chrome, and the top of the screen belongs to your phone status bar. The bell allows for that and keeps a gap below the clock and the battery instead of sitting against them. Installing is covered in Install App.

The bell reflects your notification settings rather than overriding them. If a type of notification is too noisy, turn it down in Settings > My preferences > Notifications, where you choose which types reach you in the app, by email, and as a browser push, plus quiet hours and your digest schedule. Turning a type off there removes it from the count here.