Telling participants about their matches
Having conducted a matching exercise, the next step is to let participants on the programme know that they’ve been matched. We use GOV.UK Notify to notify participants.
The system allows you to download a zipped folder that contains rows of CSV data. This data is in a format that works with templates we have set up in our GOV.UK Notify. You could use another email service that supports templating or mail merging, if you prefer.
The data is deleted from the system once it’s been downloaded, or after a period of time. This period can be set in
seconds using the environment variable DATA_STORAGE_PERIOD_SECS. The task is carried out by Celery - see
app.tasks.tasks.delete_mailing_lists_after_period.
Coming soon
In release 2.5.0, users will be able to rely directly on GOV.UK Notify to notify participants of their matches. Keep an eye on our roadmap for more details.