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Push notifications send new matching jobs straight to your desktop as system notifications — even when the Vollna tab isn’t open or focused. They’re the fastest way to be first to apply.

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How push notifications work

Before troubleshooting, it helps to know one thing: push is tied to the exact browser, device, and profile where you allowed it. It is not account‑wide.
  • If you allow push in Chrome on your laptop, your phone, a second browser, or a different Chrome profile will not receive those notifications.
  • Enable push separately in each browser you want alerts on.
  • The browser must be running (at least in the background) to display a push.
Push works on top of three layers, in this order: Vollna → your browser → your operating system. Any one of them can silently swallow a notification. Most “I enabled push but nothing arrives” cases are the browser or OS layer, not Vollna.

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Step 1: Enable push

  1. Go to Dashboard → Notifications.
  2. Locate PUSH in the list of channels and click Setup.
  3. When your browser shows the permission prompt, click Allow.
  4. Assign one or more filters and save.
If you click Block (or dismiss the prompt) by accident, most browsers will stop asking and silently suppress push. You’ll need to reset the site permission — see Reset and re-subscribe below.

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Step 2: Send a test notification

On the push notification settings page, click Send test notification. A system notification should appear within a few seconds.
“Notification sent successfully” and a recent Last notification time mean Vollna delivered the push to the browser’s push service correctly. If you still don’t see anything on screen, the notification is being blocked after Vollna — by your browser or operating system. Work through the troubleshooting steps below.

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Not receiving push notifications?

You enabled push, but nothing arrives. Run these checks in order — Step 1 is the most important, because it tells you which layer is broken.

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Step 1 — Is it Vollna, or your browser / OS?

Open a neutral push test that has nothing to do with Vollna and click one of its test buttons:

CleverPush test page

Allow notifications, then click Send test notification on that page.
  • You don’t receive that test either → the problem is your browser or OS, not Vollna. Continue with Steps 3 and 4.
  • You do receive that test, but not Vollna’s → the problem is the Vollna site permission specifically. Jump to Reset and re-subscribe.

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Step 2 — Check the browser permission for vollna.com

The browser must have notifications set to Allow for vollna.com.
1

Open the site permissions

Click the padlock / tune icon to the left of the address bar while on a Vollna page.
2

Find Notifications

Make sure Notifications is set to Allow (not Block or Ask). In Chrome and Edge this is in the dropdown directly; in Firefox it’s under the same padlock menu.
3

Reload and re-test

Reload the page and click Send test notification again.
Allowing notifications for vollna.com in your browser only grants permission. It does not by itself prove notifications can reach your screen — the operating system still has to be allowed to show them (Step 3).

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Step 3 — Check your operating system

This is the layer most people miss. Even with browser permission granted, the OS can hide every notification.
  1. Settings → System → Notifications — make sure notifications are On, and that your browser (Chrome / Edge / Firefox) is allowed in the per‑app list.
  2. Turn off Do not disturb / Focus assist — it silences all banners, including push.
  3. Battery saver can suppress background notifications. Disable it or plug in.
  4. Allow the browser to run in the background (browser Settings → System → Continue running background apps when the browser is closed).
  1. System Settings → Notifications → [your browser] — turn on Allow notifications and choose Banners or Alerts.
  2. Turn off Do Not Disturb and any active Focus mode (Control Center → Focus).
  3. Check that notifications are allowed when mirroring or sharing the display if you use an external monitor.
Web push has stricter requirements on Apple devices:
  • Safari on macOS supports web push from macOS 13 (Ventura) onward.
  • iPhone / iPad support web push from iOS / iPadOS 16.4 onward — but only after you Add Vollna to your Home Screen (Share → Add to Home Screen) and open it from that icon. A regular Safari tab cannot receive web push on iOS.

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Step 4 — Browser & device specifics

Push is per‑browser, per‑device, per‑profile. If you allowed push in Chrome on your laptop, alerts will not show up on your phone or in a different browser. Enable push in each browser you actually watch.
Private / Incognito windows don’t keep push subscriptions and won’t receive notifications. Use a normal window.
On desktop the browser must be running (a background process is fine). If you fully quit it, you won’t get live pushes until it’s open again.
Brave Shields, ad/tracker blockers, and hardened privacy extensions can block the service worker or the push connection. Allow‑list vollna.com. A corporate VPN, proxy, or firewall can also block the browser’s push endpoint (Google FCM, Mozilla, or Apple push).

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Reset and re-subscribe

If the permission got into a bad state (previously blocked, or pushes worked before and then stopped), reset it cleanly:
1

Remove the permission

Open the site permissions (padlock icon) for vollna.com and set Notifications back to Ask / default, or clear the site’s permissions.
2

Reload Vollna

Refresh the dashboard so the page can request permission again.
3

Re-enable push and Allow

Turn push back on in Notifications, and click Allow on the browser prompt.
4

Send a test notification

Confirm it works end‑to‑end.

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Still not receiving them?

If you’ve worked through every step and a neutral test like CleverPush still doesn’t reach you, the issue is at the browser/OS level rather than Vollna — but we’re happy to help dig in. Contact our support team and include:
  • Your browser and version, and your operating system (Windows / macOS / Linux + version).
  • Whether the neutral test (Step 1) reached you.
  • Whether Send test notification says it sent and shows a recent Last notification time.
Prefer alerts that don’t depend on browser and OS settings? Email, Telegram, Slack, and Discord deliver regardless of your local notification setup.