The Virtual Private Space does not send notifications. It is not a setting you forgot and it is not a fault: the system is built as a safe into which documents are deposited, and the obligation to look inside it is yours. A document counts as communicated the moment it is deposited there, whether you saw it or not.
What SPV is, exactly
The Virtual Private Space is the official channel through which ANAF communicates electronically with taxpayers: invoices via e-Factura, formal demands, tax assessment decisions, notifications, replies to requests. Access is by qualified digital certificate, and registration is mandatory for legal entities.
The difference from ordinary email is legal rather than technical: communication through SPV takes effect on deposit, not on reading. Which is why "I did not see it" is not an argument against any deadline.
Worth knowing
Communication through SPV takes effect on deposit, not on reading. "I did not see it" is not an argument against any deadline.
Why the absence of notifications is a practical problem
A small company receives a few invoices a month and can live with a weekly check. An accounting firm with thirty clients has thirty spaces to check, each with its own certificate, and not one of them announces anything.
The predictable result is that checking happens in bursts: intensively at the start of the month, barely at all through the rest. The documents that demand a fast reaction — invoice rejections, demands with short deadlines — turn up precisely in the dead periods.
What the alternatives are
The first is discipline: one person, a fixed hour, every day. It works as long as that person is at their desk and not on leave, and the real cost is the time wasted on the days when nothing appears — which is most of them.
The second is the accounting software, if it integrates with e-Factura. Many do, but they pull invoices in on a manually triggered import, often monthly, which solves the bookkeeping without solving the deadline problem at all.
The third is automated monitoring: a service that queries SPV on your behalf and tells you when something appears. This can only be done with your explicit authorisation, through OAuth, with your certificate — nobody can read anybody's SPV without their consent.
What an automated check looks like
You authorise once, from a computer with the USB token plugged in. From then on the service asks ANAF, at a regular interval, whether anything new has appeared for your tax numbers, and emails you when it has. The ANAF authorisation lasts a year and can be revoked at any time, from a button.
Alerte SPV does exactly that much: it checks, it writes to you the same day, and it keeps the invoice XML so you do not have to go in after it. The free plan monitors one tax number, with one check a day.