--- title: "Sales Navigator Alerts After the Update: Deal Priority and a New Weekly Email" description: "Sales Navigator alerts after the September update: priority for leads in open deals, consolidated alerts, a new weekly email and the toggles to turn on." url: "https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-alerts/" lang: "en" author: "Rafal Szymanski" date: "2026-09-27" lastmod: "2026-10-21" --- # Sales Navigator Alerts After the Update: Deal Priority and a New Weekly Email > Sales Navigator alerts after the September update: priority for leads in open deals, consolidated alerts, a new weekly email and the toggles to turn on. ## Sales Navigator alerts in short - Deal-based alert priority in Sales Navigator reads data from your CRM, and only the **Advanced Plus** license has full CRM sync (Advanced has partial sync, with HubSpot and Microsoft Dynamics). LinkedIn's documentation doesn't say whether the feature works on the lower licenses. - Consolidating updates from a single lead in Sales Navigator helps when you saved a few active creators next to quiet decision makers: the alert list then covers more people from your book of business, and the quiet ones stop getting lost. - The Sales Navigator weekly email orders alerts by what users actually click, and each card in the email links straight to the alert. - Sales Navigator job change alerts for a saved lead only arrive after you turn on three toggles in settings: Top Weekly Notifications, A lead started a position at a new company, and A lead started a position at the same company. - Sales Navigator alerts only work for saved leads and accounts (plus new results for saved searches), so if you don't save someone, you won't hear about them. - Sales Navigator alerts arrive on its homepage, in its mobile app and in the weekly email, some of them in LinkedIn notifications since September 2026, and on Advanced Plus also in the view embedded in your CRM and in Microsoft Teams. What's nice about Sales Navigator alerts is that once you save a contact as a lead, you get notified about what they do. That way you won't miss a post from that lead from two days ago, which in regular LinkedIn would have sunk in the feed and you would never have seen it. Your like or comment is worth something then, and you in turn don't waste time scrolling LinkedIn to check whether someone has written something. The problem starts, though, when you add as a lead an account that posts non stop. Right now an account like that takes over practically all your notifications, and they stop working the way you planned. LinkedIn seems to have noticed, and has made another change that looks small but matters. ## What changed in Sales Navigator alerts In its September 22, 2026 announcement LinkedIn lists three changes: alerts ordered by your deals, consolidated updates from a single lead, and a new weekly email. According to the availability table, all of them are on every license, from Core to Advanced Plus. Why all this? Sales Navigator alerts have one problem: you save a hundred leads and get so many notifications that you stop reading them. Besides, not all leads and notifications matter equally to you. The September changes are meant to filter out that noise. [Image: Three changes to Sales Navigator alerts in September 2026: priority for leads in open deals, consolidated updates from one lead, a weekly email with 22 alert types] ## Alert priority for leads in open deals LinkedIn calls these pipeline-priority alerts. Sales Navigator reads your CRM and ranks alerts about leads tied to your open opportunities higher, taking into account recent deal activity and deal value. The way LinkedIn puts it, your live deals stop competing for attention with every other saved lead. Who gets it? Here's the catch. The feature reads the CRM, and full CRM sync (Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle) is on the Advanced Plus license. Advanced has only partial sync, with HubSpot and Microsoft Dynamics. The availability table lumps all the alert improvements into one row ticked for every license. But without a CRM this change has nothing to read. Over the next few days I'll check whether it works on the lower licenses, because the documentation doesn't say. ## Consolidated updates from a single lead If you saved someone who posts every day, until now they could take up half your alert list. Now updates from a single lead are consolidated, so the list covers more people from your book of business instead of one chatty author. Does it change anything? For a seller who saved a few active creators next to quiet decision makers, yes, because the quiet ones stop getting lost. This change suits me very well and solves one big problem. Everyone I train on Sales Navigator gets the same suggestion from me: build yourself several lead lists. 1. Current pipeline: obvious. 2. Current customers: because you want a good relationship with them, and your like or comment really does matter. 3. Competitors: because you can keep up with what they do without visiting their accounts and looking like a stalker. Provided, of course, you follow a few tips on how to stay invisible while doing it. 4. VIPs, trade journalists and key opinion leaders in your industry: because you want to keep up with the industry and have it all served on a plate. After all, that's why you pay for the Sales Navigator license, so you don't have to scroll. And here's the thing: the last two groups matter and you want to know what they're up to, but their activity and notifications can bury your prospects and current customers. This feature fixes that with a single switch. [Image: Four lead lists I recommend in Sales Navigator training: current pipeline, current customers, competitors, and VIPs, trade journalists and key opinion leaders] ## A new weekly email with 22 alert types The weekly catch-up email collects the alerts you didn't see in Sales Navigator. After the rebuild it draws on 22 alert types instead of 13. It orders them by what users actually click, and each card takes you straight to the alert. [Image: Two phone screens with the new Sales Navigator weekly email: who viewed your profile, a new executive, a fast-growing company, engagement with a company post, decision makers at an account and a new lead post, each with its own button] *The rebuilt Sales Navigator weekly email. Graphic: LinkedIn, September 2026 Sales Navigator release announcement.* LinkedIn's graphic shows what can end up in it: who viewed your profile, a new executive at a company, a fast-growing company, someone engaging with your company's post, decision makers at an account and a new post from a lead. Each card has its own button, for example "Message", "View new hires" or "View decision makers". There is no new documentation page yet describing each of those 22 alerts, but judging by the suggestions I'm seeing, they are on target. ## Which toggles to turn on to get job change alerts Why might an alert about a saved lead changing companies never arrive? Because you have to turn it on. The help article on alerts lists three toggles in Sales Navigator settings: 1. on the email notifications tab: Top Weekly Notifications; 2. on the in-product notifications tab, in the section about saved lead activity: A lead started a position at a new company; 3. in the same section: A lead started a position at the same company. The first one drives the weekly email, the other two the alerts about a lead moving to a new company or changing roles within the same company. And remember that alerts only work for saved leads and accounts. If you don't save someone, you won't hear about them. [Image: Three toggles in Sales Navigator settings needed for job change alerts: Top Weekly Notifications, A lead started a position at a new company, A lead started a position at the same company] ## Where else alerts arrive According to LinkedIn's documentation, you get Sales Navigator alerts: - on the Sales Navigator homepage; - in the Sales Navigator mobile app (yes, there is one, and it is not the LinkedIn app); - in [LinkedIn notifications](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-alerts-linkedin-notifications/), on every license since September 2026: a saved lead being promoted or changing companies, a senior hire at a saved account (or an account from your CRM) and new results for a saved search; - in the embedded view in HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle Sales, Salesforce, Freshworks and Gong (Advanced Plus only); - in [Microsoft Teams](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-microsoft-teams/), if an admin has installed the Sales Navigator app (Advanced Plus only). A full overview of the September release, with a table of availability by license, is in the [post on Sales Navigator 2026 features](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-2026-features/). In my [Sales Navigator training](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/services/linkedin-sales-navigator-training/) we set up alerts and lists so they don't bury the team. **The whole series on the September Sales Navigator release** - [Sales Navigator alerts in Microsoft Teams](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-microsoft-teams/) - [Lead IQ in the CRM](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/lead-iq-crm/) - [Sales Navigator alerts in LinkedIn notifications](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-alerts-linkedin-notifications/) - [Personalized onboarding](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-personalized-onboarding/) - [The new Sales Navigator search](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-search-2026/) - [Warm introductions: who can introduce you](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-warm-introductions/) - [Notes and calls logging to the CRM](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-activity-logging-controls/) ## Sources - [LinkedIn Sales Navigator release notes, July to September 2026](https://www.linkedin.com/help/sales-navigator/answer/a16010005) - [Sales Navigator alerts](https://www.linkedin.com/help/sales-navigator/answer/a105133) ## Frequently asked questions about Sales Navigator alerts ### What changed in Sales Navigator alerts in September 2026? Three things. Alerts about leads tied to your open opportunities rank higher, updates from a single lead are consolidated, and the weekly catch-up email draws on 22 alert types instead of 13 and orders them by what people actually click. ### Does deal-based alert priority work without a CRM? It shouldn't, because LinkedIn describes it as a feature that reads your CRM and checks your open opportunities. Full CRM sync is on the Advanced Plus license (Advanced has only partial sync, with HubSpot and Microsoft Dynamics). The announcement doesn't spell this out, so check it on your own account. ### Why don't I get alerts when a lead changes jobs? Because you have to turn them on. In Sales Navigator settings, on the email notifications tab, turn on Top Weekly Notifications, and on the in-product notifications tab, in the section about saved leads, turn on two toggles: A lead started a position at a new company and A lead started a position at the same company. ### Do alerts work for people I haven't saved? No. To get alerts you have to save leads and accounts. Sales Navigator only tracks what is on your lists, plus new results for your saved searches. ### Where can I get Sales Navigator alerts? On the Sales Navigator homepage, in the mobile app on your phone of course, in LinkedIn notifications (some alerts since September 2026), in the weekly email, and on Advanced Plus also in the view embedded in your CRM and in Microsoft Teams.