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title: Learn What A Status Is From Top To Bottom And How to Use Statuses To Trigger Emails For Clients And Candidates
description: With this in place, changing a user's status will trigger a customizable email to alert them. Use statuses to trigger automatic emails and remove steps to simplify connecting with clients, just like with candidates.
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# Learn What A Status Is From Top To Bottom And How to Use Statuses To Trigger Emails For Clients And Candidates
## With this in place, changing a user's status will trigger a customizable email to alert them. Use statuses to trigger automatic emails and remove steps to simplify connecting with clients, just like with candidates.
First, divide your workflow and process into key moments, those will be known as **statuses**. Then, place the statuses in the order of your **workflow**, the first status would typically be your earliest contact with a new users.
Changing a user's status can trigger a customizable email to alert them of their next steps as well as trigger a task notification for an admin and many other actions.
Use statuses to also trigger automatic actions, removing manual steps, and ultimately simplify connecting with clients or candidates.
### Use a Status
1\. In the **Admin tab** of a selected Client, select the** Status** **Dropdown** menu directly below the Client's name.
2\. Select a **Status** other than the status the client is currently in.
3\. Once a new status is selected, the client is updated to that status and an email pop up will appear.
4\. This email can be edited and sent or select the **X** icon on the email to close the screen and a notification will not be sent to the client.
5\. To edit this email template for all of these updates going further, select the** Pencil Icon** at the top of the email.
### Now It's Your Turn.
Follow the steps above to see this in action.
Start with the first client status and customize each email with the proper information for that status they are now in.
### Try it out.
If you have created a test profile with your own email address, you can see how the status change email notification is when it is send.
For brand new statuses created by your agency or new to the system a popup asking if you would like to add an email notification will appear.
### Create a Status
1\. Select Settings.
2\. Select Global Settings.
3\. Select Candidate or Clients.
4\. Select Candidate Statuses Settings.
5\. There you can add a status and change the order.
It is important to consider your workflow before adding statuses and avoid moving the order as these will trigger parts of your process.
### Now It's Your Turn.
Follow the steps above to see this in action.
Create a new status.
### Try it out.
Use your test candidate, move them from one status to another. Customize the automated email popup.
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