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The GDS Way and its content is intended for internal use by the GDS Product Group community.

How to send email notifications

At GDS you should use the following standards for sending email notifications to service users and engineers.

How to send notifications to users

Use GOV.UK Notify when sending notifications to users from a GDS service, for example password resets and confirmation emails.

There’s a complete feature list available of what you can do with GOV.UK Notify, and you can also register for a Notify account here.

The Service Manual has further information related to sending emails from your service domain.

How to send notifications to engineers

The how to manage alerts page has further information on when and how to send alerts to engineers and other team members.

This page was last reviewed on 28 October 2025. It needs to be reviewed again on 28 April 2026 by the page owner #gds-way .