Before you touch a setting: three things to write down
Write down the current state of the notification panel before changing anything. A screenshot and a short note give you a way back if the panel behaves differently from the label, and that takes about a minute on a laptop.
Note the two things the panel controls: a reminder banner that repeats a message inside the account area, and status alerts that tell you an order moved. They look like one setting and they are not, which is why switching everything off loses the useful half.
Count your open orders as well. With three parcels in the warehouse an alert matters; with none, a week of silence costs nothing, and the same decision becomes a very different one.
Capture three things before you start: the notification panel as it looks today, the channel each entry currently uses, and the date. Two of the three take seconds, and the date is the part that tells you later whether a repeat appearance came from an update or from your own edit.
Separating the reminder banner from the status alert
Read the panel line by line and match each entry to something you have actually received. An entry that produced the banner you want to remove can go; an entry that produced a delivery message should stay.
In our own checks the banner message and the status message arrived through the same panel with different wording, which is what makes them easy to confuse. Keep the wording beside each entry as you read it.
1. Open the notification panel inside the account area. 2. List every entry with its wording. 3. Mark the entries that produced a banner. 4. Leave the entries that produced a status message for now.
Match entries to messages by timing rather than by wording. The banner that prompted this exercise arrived a few minutes after a page load, while the status message arrived hours after an order moved, and that gap is often enough to separate two entries that read alike.
Two entries can produce the same visible message, and the way to separate them is to change one at a time. Clearing an entry, waiting for a page load and watching what appears tells you which entry produced the banner, while clearing both at once leaves you guessing about the one you might have wanted to keep.
Changing the notification channel rather than the switch
Where the panel offers a channel, email against on-screen, use the channel instead of the off switch. Moving status alerts to email keeps the information flowing while the banner stops appearing inside the account.
This is the step that most people skip, and it is the reason some shoppers report losing every alert after a successful banner removal. Removing a banner should cost you nothing you wanted.
Check the email address on the account before you reroute anything. An address that bounces turns a working alert into a silent one, and a bounce is invisible from inside the account panel.
Where no channel option exists, the off switch is the only lever, and the fallback is to check the order screen once a day instead. That costs a minute a day and it keeps the information flowing, which is the outcome the channel change was meant to protect.
Confirming the change on a quiet order
Test on a real order that is already in the warehouse rather than on a new one. A parcel that sits still for a day or two will not produce a status change, so use a parcel that is close to its next movement.
1. Pick an order that is one step away from a status change. 2. Wait for that change. 3. Confirm the alert arrived through the channel you chose. 4. Confirm the banner did not appear.
Expect one quiet day before judging the result. In our 11 weekly checks the panel took effect immediately for the banner and within a day for the alert, which is a normal amount of lag for a scheduled message (Recorded, 11 checks between 2026-07-16 and 2026-10-01).
A quiet order is a parcel that is one step away from its next movement and not one that has just arrived. Picking a parcel that is already in the warehouse means the next status change is likely within a day or two, which is what makes the test finish inside a week.
The acceptance check for each of the three steps
Step one passes when you can point at each panel entry and say what it produced. Step two passes when a status message reaches your email and no banner appears on the account page. Step three passes when one real order has moved and you heard about it.
Record the outcome next to the date. Three lines of notes are enough: the date, the entry you changed, and what you received afterwards.
A failed check is informative rather than annoying. If the banner disappears and the email never arrives, the channel was never active, and the fix is to restore the panel entry you removed and start again from step one.
Where a check fails halfway, undo the last change rather than all three. Restoring one panel entry tells you more than restoring the whole panel, because the difference between the two states is the answer you were looking for.
Write the check down as a sentence you can pass to someone else: the date, the entry that was changed, the channel that now carries status messages, and the order used as the test. Four items are enough for a second person to reproduce the result, which is the standard we apply to our own records everywhere else on this site.
What to do when the banner returns after a site update
The banner we removed came back once in 11 weekly checks, after a site update, and the panel entry we had cleared had been restored (Recorded, 11 checks between 2026-07-16 and 2026-10-01). One reappearance in 11 weeks is a slow enough cycle to live with.
Re-apply the two changes rather than the whole procedure. The channel choice usually survives an update, so only the banner entry needs clearing again, which takes under a minute.
Keep the note from the first pass. Reading three lines is faster than working out the panel from scratch for a second time, and the note also tells you whether the update changed anything beyond the entry you cleared.
Expect labels to move between updates as well as entries to return. A panel that reorders its rows is still the same panel, and the note from the first pass is what lets you find the entry again in under a minute rather than reading the whole screen from the top.
One reappearance in 11 weekly checks reads as a one-off rather than a pattern, and a second would change that reading. Tracking the count in a note costs nothing, and three reappearances inside a quarter would tell you the panel resets on a schedule rather than on an update, which is a different fix entirely.
1. Re-open the notification panel after the update. 2. Clear the banner entry again. 3. Confirm which channel the status alerts use. 4. Note the date of this second pass beside the first one.
The data point behind this note
The reminder banner reappeared once in 11 weekly checks between 2026-07-16 and 2026-10-01, each time after a site update (Recorded, 11 checks).
Rates last checked 2026-10-02. Where a figure is community-reported we say so; where we could not verify it, we write Not verified instead of estimating.