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Lead alerts: where they go and what's in them

When a homeowner finishes a quote, you hear about it immediately — by email, by text, or both. Here is where to set that up and what each one tells you.

Last updated August 30, 2026

Alerts are set in app.wonflo.com under SettingsLead alerts. The screen puts it plainly: this is where new-lead alerts are sent, and it defaults to your business email and number.

The two fields

Settings groups alerts as Email alerts and Text alerts, with one field each:

Field
What to put there
Alert email
The inbox that actually gets read during the workday
Alert phone
The mobile number that is in somebody's pocket

Then hit Save alert settings — you will get a confirmation line when it lands.

Pick these two deliberately. The alert email should not be the address nobody opens until Friday, and the alert phone should not be the office landline if the office is empty at 7pm. Whoever is going to make the call is who these should point at.

What is in the email alert

The subject line is built to be readable in a notification preview without opening anything: New Lead — the homeowner's name — the address. That is often enough to decide whether to pull over.

Inside, in this order:

Alerts come from [email protected]. Add it to your contacts on day one, and check your spam folder once after your first test lead — an unfamiliar sender landing in junk is the single most common way a first lead gets missed.

What is in the text alert

The text is the same news compressed to what fits on a lock screen:

It is deliberately plain text with no fancy characters — that keeps it readable on every phone and every carrier.

The alert is the summary, not the file
Both alerts are built to be read in ten seconds while you are on a roof. The full picture is in the dashboard: verification results, storm history for that property, how the homeowner behaved on the page, and the lead score. Open the alert to decide whether to call now. Open the dashboard to decide what to say.

Call fast, and call — do not email

A homeowner who has just been shown a price for their own roof is more interested in you at that moment than they will be at any other point. They are also, very often, in three other tabs doing the same thing on somebody else's website.

Two things follow from that. First: speed beats polish. A call in five minutes from a name they just saw on a quote page will beat a beautifully written follow-up email tomorrow morning, every time. Second: use the phone. You have a verified number in the alert; use it. Email is the fallback, not the opener.

If they requested an inspection, the alert already tells you the windows they offered. Lead with one of them.

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Still stuck?

A real person reads every one of these, and it is usually faster than you would expect. Tell us your business name and what you were trying to do.

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