Shopify Notification Digests: Hourly, Daily and Weekly Summaries Instead of Alert Spam

Short answer: a notification digest collects every matching Shopify event over a period — an hour, a day, a week or a month — and sends them as one message instead of many. In Alius you choose this per alert: keep urgent alerts (big orders, chargebacks) instant, and move noisy ones (product edits, new customers) to a digest in Slack, email, Telegram, Discord or a webhook.

When instant alerts become noise

Real-time alerts are great until there are too many of them. A bulk product import can fire hundreds of "product updated" messages in a few minutes. A busy store can post a new customer every few seconds. When a channel is full of messages nobody reads, the important ones get missed too.

The fix is not fewer alerts. It is the right timing for each alert: some events need action now, others only need a look once a day.

How Alius digests work

Every Alius alert has a schedule:

Schedule	What happens	Good for
Instant	Sent the moment the event happens	High-value orders, chargebacks, out of stock
Hourly	One message per hour with every event from that hour	Product edits during an import
Daily	One message per day, at the hour you pick	New customers, returns, refunds
Weekly	One message per week	Inventory changes, a weekly review
Monthly	One message per month	Month-end summaries

A digest message starts with a header — for example "Daily Summary — New VIP customers: 14 events collected" — followed by a numbered list of every event in the window. Nothing is dropped; it is all in one place.

While events wait for the next digest, they show in the Alius notification history with the status Scheduled, so you can always see what is coming.

Add an AI summary on top

On daily, weekly and monthly digests, Alius can add a short AI summary above the list — a few plain-English sentences on what stood out, so you get the point without reading every line. Turn it on per alert. AI summaries are available on the Pro and Max plans.

How to set up a digest

1. Open Automations in Alius and create or edit a trigger — for example "Customer created".
2. Add conditions if you want only some events, such as customers from one country.
3. Under Schedule, choose Hourly, Daily, Weekly or Monthly. For daily and longer, pick the delivery hour.
4. Optional: switch on the AI summary.
5. Pick the channel — Slack, Email, Telegram, Discord or HTTP — and save.

Digest schedules are part of the Pro ($9.99/month) and Max ($19.99/month) plans. On Free, alerts are sent instantly.

A simple setup that works for most stores

• Instant to #orders: orders over your average order value, chargebacks, cancellations.
• Daily to email: new customers, refunds and return requests — read with your morning coffee.
• Hourly to #catalog: product updates, so a bulk edit becomes one message instead of a flood.
• Stock: use daily reorder alerts — one message per location with what to reorder. See our guide to Shopify low stock alerts and reorder points.

To cut noise even further, combine digests with conditional alerts, and pick the right channel for each with our comparison of email, Slack and Telegram.