# Is it possible to set a default notification schedule for new users?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-a-default-notification-schedule-for-new-users/287188
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** pause-notifications
**Created:** [April 8, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-a-default-notification-schedule-for-new-users/287188 "2021-04-08T20:14:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-a-default-notification-schedule-for-new-users/287188/1 "2021-04-08T20:14:14Z")
Is it possible to set a default notification schedule for new users joining the site? For example, can we set as a default that notifications are only sent during office hours, and allow users to relax that if they really want to?
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### Author:  [@markvanlan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markvanlan)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-a-default-notification-schedule-for-new-users/287188/2 "2021-04-08T23:02:13Z")
There is no way to configure that right now, and I don’t think it’s on the roadmap either. We have talked about having a richer experience for new users, with more prompts to learn about features such as this.
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### Author:  [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-a-default-notification-schedule-for-new-users/287188/3 "2021-04-08T23:40:10Z")
It would be a neat feature. One reason we are transitioning to discourse is to improve work life balance, so would be nice to set as a default for staff.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 7:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-a-default-notification-schedule-for-new-users/287188/4 "2021-04-10T07:56:14Z")
At the risk of going off topic briefly: Out of interest what platform are you transitioning from? (I did look at your Topic history briefly to check if you’d already stated it)
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-a-default-notification-schedule-for-new-users/287188/5 "2021-04-10T10:46:02Z")
You should be able to achieve this with some external scripting; I’d do it by creating a webhook that’s called upon user creation, and then using a service like Integomat or Zapier to update the new user’s preferences.
Here are some relevant resources to get you started:
- [Setting up webhooks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-webhooks/49045)
- [How to reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576)
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### Author:  [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-a-default-notification-schedule-for-new-users/287188/6 "2021-04-10T17:36:57Z")
Email mostly 🙂
We also use moodle for student facing info, but the idea is to use discourse to capture and document responses to queries as well as creating a community.