Find any setting
Find every NotBot setting in Advanced Settings, by page or by searching, from the keyboard or from the Settings panel.
Every NotBot setting lives in one place: Advanced Settings, under Customize. You can browse it page by page, or type what you are looking for and jump straight to the setting. This guide shows both, plus the keyboard shortcut and the search in the Settings panel.
The pictures come from NotBot with a practice show on NotBot Live. Your settings pages look the same whichever platform you sell on.
Before you start
Section titled “Before you start”- You are signed in to NotBot. If not, follow Sign in to NotBot.
Browse Advanced Settings
Section titled “Browse Advanced Settings”Step 1: Click Customize
Section titled “Step 1: Click Customize”In the purple bar at the top of the NotBot window, click Customize.
Step 2: Click Advanced Settings
Section titled “Step 2: Click Advanced Settings”Customize has three tabs: Advanced Settings, Labels (how your labels look) and Popups (how winner popups look). Click Advanced Settings.
Step 3: Find your way around Advanced Settings
Section titled “Step 3: Find your way around Advanced Settings”Advanced Settings fills the window:
- The pages, down the left side. Basics at the top has the everyday settings: print mode, printer, label size, winner popups and test labels. The rest are grouped: LABELS (Label types, Rules & filters), PRINTING (Printers & routing), POPUPS (Winner popups), SHOW (Capture & photos, Show behavior) and ACCOUNT (Sync & devices, Updates & privacy). Click a page to open it.
- Search all settings, at the top. It searches every page at once.
At the top right it says Changes save automatically: there is no Save button. A change counts from the next sale, even in the middle of a show. While a show is live, a bar under the tabs names the show and says so. With Auto-print off, the bar says Auto-print is off. instead.
Search for a setting
Section titled “Search for a setting”Step 4: Type in Search all settings
Section titled “Step 4: Type in Search all settings”Click Search all settings and type a word you would use for the setting. You do not need its exact name. Here we look for the star NotBot prints for first-time buyers, so we type star.
The page changes to Results for “star” as you type. Each result shows the setting’s name, the page it is on, and what it is set to now. also in the Settings drawer after the page name means you can change it in the Settings panel on the Dashboard too.
Step 5: Change the setting where it opens
Section titled “Step 5: Change the setting where it opens”Clicking a result opens its page with the setting lit up for a moment, so you can see which one it is. Change it right there.
If the setting only applies when another one is on (for example Photo quality, which only matters while win photos are saved), the result still opens it, with a note saying when it applies.
To look at the other results again, click ‹ Back to results for “star” at the top of the page. To clear the search, delete the word, or press Esc while the cursor is in the box.
Open the search from anywhere
Section titled “Open the search from anywhere”Press Cmd+K on a Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows. It works wherever you are in NotBot, even while you are clicking around your show page: NotBot opens Customize on Advanced Settings with the cursor in Search all settings, ready to type.
Step 6: Or use the NotBot menu (Mac)
Section titled “Step 6: Or use the NotBot menu (Mac)”On a Mac, the same search is in the menu bar at the top of the screen: click NotBot, then Search Settings…. The menu shows the shortcut next to it: ⌘K.
Either way, Advanced Settings opens with the cursor in the search box. Type and the results appear, as above.
Search from the Settings panel
Section titled “Search from the Settings panel”The Settings panel on the Dashboard has the same search, so you can find a setting without leaving your show.
Step 7: Click Settings
Section titled “Step 7: Click Settings”Click Dashboard in the purple bar, then ⚙️ Settings at the top of the NotBot panel on the right.
Step 8: Type in the search box and click a result
Section titled “Step 8: Type in the search box and click a result”Under the tabs at the top of the Settings panel is a Search all settings box. Type a word, here photo. The panel lists up to 12 matching settings, best match first, each with the Advanced Settings page it is on.
Click a result, or press Enter for the first one. NotBot opens Advanced Settings at that setting.
Read more about a setting
Section titled “Read more about a setting”Step 9: Click Learn more
Section titled “Step 9: Click Learn more”Some settings have a Learn more link under them, for example Save a photo of each auction win here on Capture & photos, or Print mode, Printer and Label size on Basics. Click it and NotBot goes back to the Dashboard and opens the help page about that setting in a new tab of the built-in browser, next to your show.
If something looks different
Section titled “If something looks different”The search finds nothing
Type fewer words, or a different word for the same thing. Every word you type has to match. The search looks at setting names, their descriptions, the page names and everyday words for each setting, not at what a setting is set to. You can also browse the pages on the left: Basics has the everyday settings.
Cmd+K or Ctrl+K does nothing
Click anywhere in the NotBot window first, so NotBot is the program you are using, then press it again. On a Mac you can also use NotBot › Search Settings… in the menu bar.
I changed a setting. Do I need to save?
No. Every change saves as you make it and counts from the next sale.