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# Using User Status Alias to trigger Notification Rules

**User Status Alias** is located on **Settings > Users > Status Aliases**

The **User Status Alias** is just a way to have a different name for the existing statuses:

* Pending
* Active
* Inactive
* Canceled
* Fraud

You can, for example, create some **User Status Aliases** been alias of the **Active** status.

Changing the status of an existing Client to one of the newly created **User Status Aliases** will not notify your client at all yet. However, you can then use our \*\*Notifications \*\*system, to automatically send emails or create support tickets to the respective users when they are on a certain status.

You can find them under: **Accounts > Contact Users > Notifications**

There, you will see 2 links:

* **Settings > Plugins > Automation Services > Auto Mailer**:  where you can configure the Notification Automation Service known as Auto Mailer, that you should configure to run to automatically send the E-mails or Tickets generated from your Notification rules. Please take into account that if you will be changing your clients status more than 1 time per day, then you will need to configure this service to run more times per day.
* **Settings > Company > Email Templates > Notification Emails:** where you can configure the email templates that will be used by the Notifications rules.

After configuring the service and the templates, now you can create the respective Notification rules under: \*\*Accounts \*\*> **Contact Users** > **Notifications**

There:

1. click on **Add Notification**.
2. set an **Event Name**.
3. select an **Email Template** from the ones you created previously.
4. select an **Action**, if you want to **Send Email** or **Open Support Ticket**.
5. go to **Rules defining this notification**.
6. check **Build custom rule**.
7. select **User Status** equals the **Status Alias** you need to trigger the notification.
8. click **Submit** button to create the new Notification rule.

Once done, when **Auto Mailer** runs, it will evaluate the **Notification** rules and do the respective **Action** you configured for them. Clients will not be notified twice while they continue matching the **Notification** rule, so if they continue in the same status, they are notified only one time. Once you change them to a new status, if the new status is matching a **Notification** rule, that rule will notify him/her, and will now be able to be notified with the previous **Notification** rule when he/she goes back to that previous status.