One of the most excellent tools available with an upgraded membership is the notifications system. You can create custom e-mail notifications when listing meeting your chosen criteria are published.

Currently you can create your own notification settings for Businesses, Investors and Industry Tags

Requirements for setting up notifications:

1. A free user account upgraded to Contact or Full Membership
2. An e-mail address you check regularly as the the primary e-mail for you user account

Setting up notifications

Once you're logged in with your upgraded account you will see check boxes at the bottom of each listing allowing you to immediately set up a notification for the current post type or tags applied to it. There is also an interface for managing existing notifications and creating new ones on your My Account page.

There's two methods of setting up notifications:

As you browse:

1. Using the checkbox form on the bottom of any listing (full view) of the desired type or category to immediately start receiving notifications of new content of that type or category.

On your My Account page:

A more detailed user interface is available via your My Account page which allows you to create new notifications of any type, view your existing setup and cancel one or all of your notifications.

1. Click the "My Account" link in the top menu of the site
2. Click the "Notifications" tab on your My Account page
3. To create a new Type or Tag notification click on the create new links towards the bottom of the page
4. Select the appropriate check box for content types or start typing a category name into the category input field - it will automatically search the database and present you with a list of options to choose from.
5. Click the submit button and you will now receive e-mails notifying you of new posts that meet your criteria

Changing Your Notification Settings

These functions are all available on the My Account page under the "Notifications" tab.

To change the interval for all notifications:

1. Click "My Account" in the top menu of the site
2. Click the edit tab on your "My Account" page
3. Use the list box at the bottom of the page to choose an interval (Hour, Day, Week etc)
4. Click submit

Cancelling a notification:

1. Click "My Account" in the top menu of the site
2. Click the "Notifications" tab on your "My Account" page
3. Click "Administer your subscriptions" (Please note this is not the same as your membership subscription, this refers to subscriptions to content notifications)
4. Check the box next to the notification/s you'd like to change
5. Select an action from the "Update Options" dropdown box above the notification listings (Delete to Delete, Deactivate to retain the notification in your account but stop receiving E-Mails for it
6. Click the "Update" button next to the "Update Options" drop down box.

Cancelling all notifications:

1. Click "My Account" in the top menu of the site
2. Click the "Notifications" tab at the top of your "My Account" page
3. Click the "Cancel all your subscriptions" link on the "Notifications" over page (Please not that this will not cancel you PayPal subscription to the site, just your notification E-Mails)
4. Confirm that you'd like to do so
5. You can return to the "Notifications" tab of your "My Account" page and click "Administer my subscriptions" to verify the status of your notifications has changed.