Payment notification emails sent to secondary email instead of primary
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Payment notifications are not being sent to our primary email address. I see that several others have posted about this in the past and they either have no answer or a generic response about how to set a primary email address. The correct email address is set as primary. But about 50% of the time, the emails go to an address that, while it is on our account, it is not the primary address. I need this corrected so that all notification emails go to the primary email address.
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Click on settings > notifications in the blue band at the top > then you can edit the email address that is in there.
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There are no email addresses listed in Notifications. When I go in to My Business Info and check the email addresses, the correct one is listed as primary, but less than 50% of the time does the notification actually go to that email address.
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There has to be at least 1 email address in notifications or you wouldn't ever get any !!
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Maybe I'm clicking in the wrong place. I clicked on the gear icon, then My Settings, then under Notifications, I clicked Update. The only options there are:
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Payment notification seems to go to the requesting address, not necessarily the primary address, so if payment is sent to the secondary address notification is also sent there, even if the primary address is defined in Settings/Notifications. I agree that this is not necessarily obvious/logical/desirable.

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