# 3D print notifications: mobile app, email, SMS & Discord alerts Mobile push notifications, email, SMS and Discord/Slack/Teams alerts the moment your 3D print finishes, fails, pauses or runs out of filament. Print farms call this the most important feature for keeping every printer busy. **Categories:** core *Never miss the moment a print finishes* ## Print notifications that keep every printer busy The print just finished. Did you notice? On a single printer, that's a missed dinner. On a 30-printer farm, that's a printer sitting idle for hours waiting for you to load the next job. SimplyPrint pushes a notification the second a print finishes, fails, pauses or runs out of filament - to your phone via the mobile app, to your inbox, to your SMS, or to your team's Discord, Slack or Teams channel. ## The most underrated feature in print-farm operations Talk to anyone running a real print farm and they'll tell you: utilization isn't bottlenecked by your printers, it's bottlenecked by your attention. The faster you know a print finished, the faster the next one starts. SimplyPrint turns every print event into a push - so you can click the notification, see *"5 printers ready for the next job"*, and clear the queue in 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes. ## Email alerts to anyone - yourself, your team, your customer Set one or many email addresses per event. Yours, a colleague's, the customer who ordered the print. Useful when you're print-on-demand and the customer wants the "your part is ready" mail the moment it comes off the bed - no manual updates required. ## SMS to your phone for the events that really matter Pick SMS as your preferred channel and SimplyPrint texts the events you've opted into - finished, failed, paused, filament runout. Useful as a fallback when you're away from your computer and don't have the mobile app installed, or as a high-priority alert path for production-critical prints. ## Discord, Slack & Microsoft Teams via webhooks Pipe print events straight into your team's Discord channel, Slack workspace or Microsoft Teams channel with native message formatting - thumbnails, status colors, the works. Great for shared makerspaces, classrooms and print farms where everyone needs the same visibility.** Discord** renders as a rich card with the printer thumbnail and status colour, **Slack** as a clean message attachment, **Teams** as an adaptive card - each channel gets the format it does best. ### Discord card Print thumbnail, status colour, jump-to-printer link. ### Slack message Attachment with status colour, fields and printer link. ### Microsoft Teams card Adaptive card with status, action buttons, deep link. ## Filter notifications by printer, group or custom tag Multi-team farms can route a printer's notifications to that team's Slack channel without spamming the whole org. Pick a single printer, a printer group, or a custom tag, then point that filter at the channel that should hear about it. Engineering's printers ping #engineering, prototyping's ping #prototyping, the marketing prop printer pings #marketing - same SimplyPrint, three quiet Slack channels. ## Push notifications on iPhone & Android the second a print finishes Install the SimplyPrint mobile app and every print event becomes a push on your phone. Click any event to see exactly what the notification looks like. [Get the SimplyPrint app →](/features/app) ### Print finished The job came off the bed clean. Time to clear it and queue the next. ### Print failed Printer-reported failure or AI failure-detection trigger - go look. ### Print paused Filament runout, M0/M601 stop, user pause - know who hit pause and why. ### Print started Optional. Useful for scheduled overnight prints (confirms the staggered start actually happened) and for QA teams that need to know exactly when a billable print began. ### Queue approval needed A student or operator submitted a job that needs review before it prints. ### AI failure detected The AI flagged spaghetti, layer shift or detachment - confirm or dismiss. ## Per-event, per-channel control - no notification overload Pick exactly which events go where. Push to phone for print-finished and AI-failure, email only for queue-approval, Discord for everything. Mute the ones that don't matter to *you* without affecting the rest of your team. The configuration lives under your user profile, so every team member gets their own preference. ## How farms turn notifications into 24/7 utilization Notification arrives → you click it → you land on the printer → the queue inspector shows the next compatible job → one click and you're printing again. Multiply that by every printer in a farm and the difference between "notifications on" and "notifications off" is days of unused machine time per month. Pair notifications with [smart routing](/features/smart-routing) and the queue picks the next job for you - you just clear the bed. ## Frequently asked questions ### How fast are notifications? Push notifications hit your phone within seconds (delivered via Apple's APNs and Google's FCM push services). Emails are sent within ~30 seconds. SMS depends on your carrier (usually under a minute). Discord, Slack and Teams webhooks fire instantly when the event is recorded. ### Which plan includes notifications? Mobile push and email notifications are available on every plan, including Free. SMS notifications are available on Pro, Print Farm, School and Enterprise plans. Discord, Slack and Teams delivery rides on webhooks, which are a Print Farm and above feature. ### Do I need the mobile app to get push notifications? Yes. Mobile push notifications are delivered through the SimplyPrint app on iOS and Android. Without the app you can still get notified by email on every plan, or by SMS on Pro, Print Farm, School and Enterprise plans. ### Can each team member set their own notification preferences? Yes. Notification preferences live on your user profile, so each operator picks which events they want and on which channels. Shared-team channels (Discord, Slack, Teams) are set up once at the account level via webhooks. ### Why is this so important for print farms? Print-farm utilization is bottlenecked by how fast you respond to a finished print. Every hour a printer sits idle waiting for you to clear the bed is an hour of lost capacity. Notifications collapse that response time from "whenever I check again" to seconds. ### Can I get a notification when AI detects a print failure? Yes. The [AI failure detection](/features/ai-detection) system fires a notification through every channel you've configured the moment it flags a likely failure - so you can confirm and cancel, or dismiss as a false positive. ### Where do I configure all this? Settings → Notifications inside SimplyPrint. The [helpdesk article](https://help.simplyprint.io/en/article/notifications-everything-about-getting-notified-about-your-3d-prints-1u0qj7c/) walks through every channel and event. --- **Learn more:** [Help Article](https://help.simplyprint.io/en/article/notifications-everything-about-getting-notified-about-your-3d-prints-1u0qj7c/)