What's covered in this guide?
What this setting does
Organization admins on payroll receive automated payroll emails, such as pay run notifications when a run is ready or has been submitted to the payment processor. The opt-out lets a single admin stop receiving those payroll emails on their own account, without changing what any other admin or any employee receives.
The opt-out only affects payroll emails routed to admins. Other notifications you've configured on the Notification Preferences page — roster, timesheet, HR notifiers, and so on — are controlled per notifier on the same page and aren't affected by this button.
Who sees the opt-out
The Opt in/out of Payroll Emails card only appears on the Notification Preferences page if both of these are true for your account:
You're an organization admin.
You're configured as a payroll user.
Employees and managers without a payroll user configuration won't see the card.
How to opt out
Open Notification Preferences from your account menu.
Scroll to the Opt in/out of Payroll Emails card at the top of the page.
Click Opt out of Payroll Emails.
The card updates to confirm you're opted out, and payroll emails stop being sent to your account from that point on. There's no separate save step.
How to opt back in
Return to the same card on Notification Preferences. While you're opted out, the button reads Opt in to Payroll Emails — click it to start receiving payroll emails again.
Safety fallback: If every admin on the organization has opted out, payroll emails fall back to all admins so the messages aren't lost. Opting out as the only payroll admin therefore won't actually silence the emails — the system will keep sending them to admins until at least one is opted in.