Notifications and Account Settings

For Everyone

This section covers the everyday housekeeping of your Sayzo account: staying on top of notifications, moving around the app, switching between the Task Giver and Task Doer views, keeping your contact details and location current, and signing out safely.

Most of these settings live in the navigation and on the Notifications and Profile screens. For setting up your account in the first place, see Getting Started: Creating Your Account. For skills, photos and verification, see Your Profile and Verification.

Finding your way around the app

Sayzo adapts its navigation to your screen. On a phone you get a top bar and a bottom tab bar. On a larger screen you get a left Sidebar and a top bar. The two layouts show the same destinations, just arranged differently.

On a phone

A top bar with the page title, the role toggle, and a notification bell.
A bottom tab bar with five tabs. For the Task Giver view these are Home, Post, Tasks, Chats and Profile. For the Task Doer view they are Home, Browse, Applications, Chats and Profile.
The Profile tab shows your photo (or your initials), with a green ring when it is the active tab.

On a larger screen

A left Sidebar grouped into MENU, ACCOUNT and GENERAL sections.
ACCOUNT holds Payments and Notifications. GENERAL holds Help & Support and Log out.
A footer at the bottom of the Sidebar shows your avatar, name and role label, and links to your Profile.
You can collapse the Sidebar to a slim icon-only rail using the chevron. The collapsed state is remembered, and the icons show tooltips when you hover them.

Some navigation items show a small badge count, and these three badges mean different things. The Notifications badge counts unread items in your inbox. The Chats badge counts unread messages. The badge on My Applications (Task Doer) or My Tasks (Task Giver) counts pending proposals you have received, so those two show the same number. A badge appears only when its count is above zero.

Switching between Task Giver and Task Doer

Sayzo has two roles. As a Task Giver you post work; as a Task Doer you find work and earn. You can flip between the two views at any time using the role pill in the top bar, marked Giver and Doer.

To switch your view

Tap the Giver or Doer pill in the top bar.
The navigation reshapes for that role. The Task Giver view shows Dashboard, Post Task and My Tasks, plus a Post a Task button. The Task Doer view shows Home, Browse Tasks and My Applications.
Your choice is remembered across refreshes and as you move between screens.

Good to know

Switching is a view-only convenience that changes which screens and menu items you see. It does not change your underlying account role.
If you switch while you are on a screen that does not exist for the new view (for example, the post-task composer while switching to Doer), Sayzo sends you back to Home.
The first time you sign in, the view is set from your account, then it stays wherever you last left it.

Reading your notifications

Your Notifications inbox keeps a record of task updates, payments and system messages. Open it from Account then Notifications in the Sidebar, or by tapping the bell in the top bar on a phone.

The inbox loads up to your 50 most recent items. A line near the top shows how many are still unread, for example 3 unread notifications.

To browse and clear your notifications

Open the Notifications inbox.
Optionally tap a category tab to narrow the list: All, Task Updates, Payments or System. Filtering happens on the items already loaded.
Read items grouped under Today, Yesterday and Earlier, each showing a relative time such as Just now, 5 min ago, 3h ago or 2d ago.
Tap an item's green action button, for example View task, View payment or View dispute, to mark it read and jump to the relevant screen.
To mark a single item read without opening it, tap the green dot on its row.
Tap Mark all read to clear every unread item at once.

Good to know

The inbox loads only the latest 50 items, and the category tabs filter that loaded list. There is no separate "load more".
When the list is empty you will see You're all caught up. No notifications here.
Marking items read is best effort. If a tap to mark something read does not go through, the item is simply left as it was, with no error message.
On a phone the bell shows a small green dot when you have unread items rather than a number. The full count appears on the Notifications item in the Sidebar on a larger screen.

Turning on browser notifications

On top of the in-app inbox, Sayzo can send you browser notifications so you hear about matches, proposals and messages even when the app is not in front of you. These require you to opt in and then grant your browser or device permission. They are offered only if your browser supports them.

From the prompt after you sign in

After signing in, look for the card near the bottom of the screen: Get notified about matches, proposals and messages.
Tap Enable. The button shows Enabling… while it works.
When your browser or device asks for permission, choose to allow it.
Once allowed, the card disappears and does not return, because you are now subscribed.

From the Notifications page

Open the Notifications inbox.
In the row below the tabs, tap Enable browser notifications.
Grant the browser permission prompt to finish subscribing.
To turn them off later, return to the same place and tap Disable browser notifications.

Good to know

The permission prompt only appears when you tap Enable. Sayzo never prompts you on its own.
If you tap Not now on the card, or you decline the browser permission, the card is dismissed so you are not nagged. It will not reappear unless a future app update brings it back.
If you do not seem to receive any browser notifications, check that you both enabled them in Sayzo and allowed the permission in your browser or device.
Tapping Disable browser notifications both unsubscribes your browser and removes the related delivery setting on Sayzo's side.
When a notification arrives while the app is open, you will also see a short banner appear briefly in the corner. It dismisses itself after a few seconds, or you can close it with the X, and your badge counts refresh at the same time.

Updating your contact details and location

Your email, phone number and location are managed from your Profile. Open Profile and tap Edit Profile to reach these controls. Your phone and email are not free-text fields, because each one is confirmed with a 6-digit code for security. Your Your Profile and Verification section covers profile editing in more depth.

To change your mobile number

Next to Mobile Number, tap Change.
Enter your New mobile number and tap Send code. A 6-digit code is sent to the new number.
Enter the code and tap Verify & update.
You will see Number updated confirming the new number is now your verified mobile number.

To change your email address

Next to Email ID, tap Change.
Enter your New email address and tap Send code. A 6-digit code is sent to the new address.
Enter the code and tap Verify & update. You will see Email updated.

If you have an email on file that is not yet verified, a Verify button appears next to it. Tapping it sends a code to your existing address so you can confirm it, without changing the address.

To update your location

Your location shows as a City, State label that is set from a map. To change it, use the Update location link, which opens the full Edit Profile page where you can set your point on the map.
You cannot type a city directly. The City, State label is worked out from the point you choose on the map.

Showing yourself as available

You can let others see when you are around using the Availability Badge. When it is on, your avatar shows a green dot and Online now appears on your profile.

Open Profile and find the Availability Badge row in the account area.
Switch it On or Off with the toggle.
Your profile updates to reflect the change.

If the change does not go through, you will see Couldn't update availability. Try again in a moment.

Signing out

You can sign out whenever you want. There is no password to remember, since Sayzo signs you in with a one-time code each time.

On a larger screen, use Log out in the GENERAL section of the Sidebar.
On a phone, you can sign out from your Profile.
After signing out you are returned to the sign-in screen. To get back in, follow the steps in Getting Started: Creating Your Account.

If you are ever signed out unexpectedly with a message that your account is no longer available, please contact support. See Help, Cancellations and Disputes for how to reach the team.

If you see a waitlist screen

Before a full public launch, Sayzo may run in waitlist mode. If it does, every signed-in user is held on a single holding screen no matter which page they try to open.

You will see a centered card reading You're on the waitlist. with a checkmark.
It explains that Sayzo is launching soon and that you will be told when it is ready. There is nothing else for you to do here, and there is no form to fill in, because you are already signed in.
You can tap Sign out to log out and return to the sign-in screen.

This screen is a launch gate, not an error. Once Sayzo is live for you, you will reach the full app as normal.