Fuel alerts
Fuel alerts are designed to be more useful than a single price watch.
Carity can watch favourite stations, area pricing, and fuel-price movement patterns. This guide explains what each alert means and why you may see either immediate notifications or summaries.
Immediate or summary delivery
Email support if behaviour looks wrong
Alert types available now
- Cheapest in area changed: useful when you want to know when the best-value station in an area shifts.
- Favourite out of stock: useful when a saved station is missing the fuel type you care about.
- Favourite target hit: useful when a favourite station reaches the target price you set.
- Price increased by Xp: useful when a favourite or watched context jumps by a meaningful amount.
- Price dropped by Xp: useful when the price falls by the amount you care about.
The app uses a structured alert builder so different alert families can collect the right details instead of forcing every alert into the same narrow rule.
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Immediate alerts vs daily or weekly summaries
Carity supports three fuel-alert delivery modes in Settings:
- All notifications: send fuel alerts as they happen, with burst protection if too many triggers happen close together.
- Daily summary: collect fuel alerts into a summary instead of sending each one immediately.
- Weekly summary: collect fuel alerts into a weekly round-up.
These delivery choices apply to fuel alerts only. Garage reminders for MOT, tax, and service still send when their reminder windows are reached.
Premium, free-tier limits, and what happens if access ends
Premium increases what you can manage inside Carity. The app may also show renewal or free-tier limit messaging based on your current mirrored access state.
If premium is no longer active, Carity may reduce alert capacity back to the free limit. That means older alerts can be removed so the app and backend return to the supported free-tier cap.
Why an alert might not fire
- The fuel condition did not actually match your chosen rule.
- Your delivery mode is set to a daily or weekly summary rather than immediate sends.
- Notifications are not allowed for Carity on this device.
- You reached a free-tier limit after a premium change.
- The station or area you are watching no longer matches the state you expected.
If you believe an alert should have fired, send support the alert type, station or postcode, fuel type, and when you expected it to trigger.