---
title: "Comments and mentions"
description: "Leave notes for your team on an order, mention a teammate so they are alerted, and edit or delete your own comments."
url: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/orders/comments/"
lang: en
alternates:
  en: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/orders/comments/"
  hu: "https://docs.poltura.com/hu/orders/comments/"
---

# Comments and mentions

Leave notes for your team on an order, mention a teammate so they are alerted, and edit or delete your own comments.

- Where: Orders → an order → Activity

Every order has a comment thread for your team in its **Activity** section. Use it for the things a colleague needs to know when they open the order: what the customer said on the phone, why a parcel is on hold, who is looking into a problem.

Comments are internal. Customers never see them.

![The Activity section of an order with the Leave a comment box, its formatting buttons and Add comment, above the order’s history](https://docs.poltura.com/screenshots/en/orders/comments.webp)

_Comments and the order’s history share one feed._

## Add a comment

1. Open the order and go to **Activity**.
2. Click the **Leave a comment** box and write your note.
3. Use the buttons under the box to format the text: **Bold**, **Italic**, **Code** and **Link**. **Add emoji** opens the emoji picker.
4. Select **Add comment**.
5. Your comment appears in the activity feed with your name and the time.

To add a link, select **Link**, fill in the **Link text**, paste the address and select **Add link**.

## Mention a teammate

A mention tells a colleague that the comment is for them.

1. In the comment box type `@` and the first letters of the name.
2. Pick the teammate from the list. Use the arrow keys and `Enter` or `Tab`, or click the name.
3. Finish the comment and select **Add comment**.
4. The teammate gets a "Mentioned in an order comment" alert.

The list offers the members of your team by name. Mentioning yourself does not send an alert.

How each person receives alerts is their own setting. See [Notifications and alerts](https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/notifications/#alerts).

## Edit or delete a comment

1. Open the order and find your comment in **Activity**.
2. Select **Edit**, change the text and select **Save**. Select **Cancel** to leave it as it was.
3. To remove the comment, select **Delete**.

An edited comment carries the **(edited)** mark. If you add a new mention while editing, only the newly mentioned teammate is alerted.

> **Warning**
>
> A deleted comment is gone for everyone and cannot be brought back.

## What else is in the activity feed

The comments sit between the events of the order, in time order, so a note always reads in its context. The feed records when the order was placed, payments captured and refunded, items fulfilled, shipped and delivered, returns, claims and exchanges, order edits, transfers, and changes to the email address or an address.

## Good to know

- You can edit and delete only your own comments.
- Comments stay on the order. They are not sent by email and do not appear on invoices or in the customer's account.
- Installed apps can read the comment thread of an order. A comment written by an app is marked **App**.
- To write to the customer, use the [Inbox](https://docs.poltura.com/en/inbox/) instead.
- Notes on a return are separate. See [Handle a return](https://docs.poltura.com/en/returns/handle-a-return/).

## If something goes wrong

- **A teammate is missing from the mention list.** They are not a member of the team yet, or their profile has no name. Invite them under [People and roles](https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/organization/team/#invite).
- **There is no Edit or Delete on a comment.** It was written by someone else.
- **The mentioned teammate got no alert.** They may have switched that alert off in their own notification settings.

## Related

- [Order details](https://docs.poltura.com/en/orders/order-details/)
- [Notifications and alerts](https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/notifications/)
- [People and roles](https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/organization/team/)
- [Inbox](https://docs.poltura.com/en/inbox/)