Scheduled reports let you group monitors together and receive a single digest summarizing all detected changes on a schedule you choose. Instead of getting an instant notification for every change, you get one consolidated report covering everything that happened since the last digest.
This is especially useful when you monitor many pages and want to review changes in batches rather than reacting to each one individually.
When to Use Reports vs Instant Notifications
| Scenario | Recommended |
|---|---|
| Monitoring a handful of critical pages | Instant notifications |
| Tracking 50+ competitor pages for pricing | Scheduled report (daily or weekly) |
| Legal/compliance pages that rarely change | Scheduled report (weekly or monthly) |
| Stock availability that needs immediate action | Instant notifications with escalation |
| Executive stakeholder updates | Scheduled report with AI summary |
You can mix both approaches. Monitors that are not assigned to any report continue to send instant notifications as usual. Monitors assigned to a report will only appear in digests (unless escalation is configured for urgent changes).
Creating a Report
Go to Settings > Workspace > Alerts & Reports and select the Scheduled Summary Reports tab. Click Add Report to configure:
Name - Give your report a descriptive name, such as "Weekly competitor pricing" or "Daily legal page updates."
Include changes from - Choose which monitors to include:
- All monitors - Every monitor in the workspace
- By tag - Monitors with specific tags (useful for grouping by category, client, or project)
- By folder - Monitors in specific folders
- By website - Monitors grouped by their website domain
- Specific monitors - Hand-pick individual monitors by name or URL
Schedule - How often the digest is generated and sent:
- Daily - Every day at your chosen hour
- Weekdays only - Monday through Friday
- Weekly - On a specific day of the week
- Monthly - On a specific day of the month
- On-demand only - Only generated when you manually click "Generate now"
All times are based on your workspace timezone, which you can set in Settings > Workspace > General.
Delivery Channels
Each report can be delivered through one or more channels:
- Email - Select team members and/or verified email addresses as recipients. You can add CC and BCC recipients for stakeholders who need a copy.
- Slack - Enter a webhook URL or leave blank to use your workspace default
- Discord - Enter a webhook URL or leave blank to use your workspace default
- Microsoft Teams - Enter a webhook URL or leave blank to use your workspace default
- Telegram - Enter a chat ID or leave blank to use your workspace default
Content Filters
Control which changes appear in each digest:
Minimum importance - Every change is assigned an importance level based on how significant it is. You can filter each report to only include changes above a certain threshold:
- All changes - Everything detected
- Medium and up - Skips trivial edits like whitespace or date stamps
- Important and up - Only notable changes like price drops, content rewrites
- Critical only - Only major changes like large price swings, availability shifts
- Custom - Set your own threshold
Show only most recent change per monitor - When a monitor detects multiple changes between digests, only the latest one is shown. This keeps reports concise.
Group by domain - Groups changes by website domain, useful when monitoring pages across many different sites.
AI Executive Summary
When enabled, each digest includes a short AI-written paragraph at the top summarizing the most important changes across all included monitors. This lets you scan the digest quickly without reading every individual change.
You can choose from several summary styles depending on how much detail you want, ranging from a single headline to a full multi-paragraph briefing. Some advanced styles are available on higher-tier plans.
Priority Escalation
Reports batch notifications by design, but some changes may need immediate attention. Priority escalation lets you bypass the schedule for high-priority changes.
When enabled, any change with a priority score above your escalation threshold is sent immediately through the escalation channels you configure. These can be different from your regular delivery channels. For example, you might receive daily email digests but get Slack alerts immediately when something critical happens.
Scoring is automatic. Larger, more meaningful changes (like significant price drops or availability shifts) score higher than minor edits. You don't need to configure scoring - it works out of the box for all monitor types.
Shareable Digest Links
Every generated digest gets a unique shareable link that works without requiring a PageCrawl account. You can share this link with anyone who needs to see the report.
Share links expire after 30 days by default. From the digest history, you can:
- Rotate the link (generates a new URL, invalidating the old one)
- Revoke the link (disables access immediately)
- Refresh the expiration (extends it another 30 days)
Exporting Digests
Each digest can be exported as:
- PDF - Formatted report suitable for printing or archiving
- Excel - Spreadsheet with columns for date, group, monitor name, URL, priority, and AI summary
- CSV - Same data as Excel in CSV format
How Reports Interact with Instant Notifications
When a monitor is assigned to any scheduled report, its instant workspace-level notifications (email, Slack, Discord, etc.) are bypassed. Changes are collected and delivered in the next digest instead.
The exceptions:
- Escalation alerts still fire immediately when a change exceeds the escalation threshold
- Public subscriber notifications (for publicly shared monitors) are unaffected
If you delete or disable a report, the monitors it covered go back to receiving instant notifications automatically.
Plan Limits
Standard plans include up to 2 reports. Higher-tier plans include unlimited reports with additional features like on-demand generation. If you downgrade your plan, excess reports are automatically paused and you receive an email listing which ones were affected.
