diff --git a/app/javascript/src/components/AlertsContainer/components/Alert.jsx b/app/javascript/src/components/AlertsContainer/components/Alert.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e664093a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/javascript/src/components/AlertsContainer/components/Alert.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+import React, { Component } from "react";
+import styled from "styled-components";
+import { string, number, func } from "prop-types";
+import { Grid, Row, Col } from "react-bootstrap";
+
+const Wrapper = styled.div`
+  margin-bottom: 0;
+`;
+
+class Alert extends Component {
+  static alertClass(type) {
+    const classes = {
+      error: "alert-danger",
+      alert: "alert-warning",
+      notice: "alert-info",
+      success: "alert-success"
+    };
+    return classes[type] || classes.success;
+  }
+
+  static glyphiconClass(type) {
+    const classes = {
+      error: "glyphicon-exclamation-sign",
+      alert: "glyphicon-exclamation-sign",
+      notice: "glyphicon-info-sign",
+      success: "glyphicon-ok-sign"
+    };
+    return classes[type] || classes.success;
+  }
+
+  componentDidMount() {
+    this.timer = setTimeout(
+      this.props.onClose,
+      this.props.timeout
+    );
+  }
+
+  componentWillUnmount() {
+    clearTimeout(this.timer);
+  }
+
+  render() {
+    const alertClassName =
+      `alert
+       ${Alert.alertClass(this.props.type)}
+       alert-dismissable
+       alert-floating`;
+    const glyphiconClassName =
+      `glyphicon
+       ${Alert.glyphiconClass(this.props.type)}`;
+
+    return (
+      <Wrapper className={alertClassName}>
+        <Grid>
+          <Row>
+            <Col>
+              <button type="button"
+                      className="close"
+                      data-dismiss="alert"
+                      aria-label="Close"
+                      onClick={this.props.onClose}>
+                <span aria-hidden="true">×</span>
+              </button>
+              <span className={glyphiconClassName} />
+              <span>&nbsp;{this.props.message}</span>
+            </Col>
+          </Row>
+        </Grid>
+      </Wrapper>
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+Alert.propTypes = {
+  message: string.isRequired,
+  type: string.isRequired,
+  timeout: number.isRequired,
+  onClose: func.isRequired
+};
+
+export default Alert;
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diff --git a/app/javascript/src/components/AlertsContainer/index.jsx b/app/javascript/src/components/AlertsContainer/index.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0577b1ad0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/javascript/src/components/AlertsContainer/index.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+import React, { Component } from "react";
+import { connect } from "react-redux";
+import styled from "styled-components";
+import TransitionGroup from 'react-transition-group/TransitionGroup';
+import CSSTransition from 'react-transition-group/CSSTransition';
+import { shape, arrayOf, string, number, func } from "prop-types";
+import { clearAlert } from "../actions/AlertsActions";
+import Alert from "./components/Alert";
+
+const Wrapper = styled.div`
+  position: absolute;
+  z-index: 1000;
+  width: 100%;
+`;
+
+class AlertsContainer extends Component {
+  constructor(props) {
+    super(props);
+
+    this.renderAlert = this.renderAlert.bind(this);
+  }
+
+  renderAlert(alert) {
+    return (
+      <Alert message={alert.message}
+             type={alert.type}
+             timeout={alert.timeout}
+             onClose={() => this.props.clearAlert(alert.id)}
+      />
+    );
+  }
+
+  render() {
+    return (
+      <Wrapper>
+        <TransitionGroup>
+          {this.props.alerts.map((alert) =>
+            <CSSTransition key={alert.id}
+                           timeout={500}
+                           classNames="alert-animated">
+              {this.renderAlert(alert)}
+            </CSSTransition>
+          )}
+        </TransitionGroup>
+      </Wrapper>
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+AlertsContainer.propTypes = {
+  alerts: arrayOf(
+    shape({
+      message: string.isRequired,
+      type: string.isRequired,
+      id: string.isRequired,
+      timeout: number,
+      onClose: func
+    }).isRequired
+  ).isRequired,
+  clearAlert: func.isRequired
+}
+
+const mapStateToProps = ({ alerts }) => ({ alerts });
+
+export default connect(mapStateToProps, { clearAlert })(AlertsContainer);
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diff --git a/app/javascript/src/components/Navigation/index.jsx b/app/javascript/src/components/Navigation/index.jsx
index 6fe32f058..5cc2c5e9a 100644
--- a/app/javascript/src/components/Navigation/index.jsx
+++ b/app/javascript/src/components/Navigation/index.jsx
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import UserAccountDropdown from "./components/UserAccountDropdown";
 const StyledNavbar = styled(Navbar)`
   background-color: ${WHITE_COLOR};
   border-color: ${BORDER_GRAY_COLOR};
+  margin-bottom: 0;
 `;
 
 const StyledBrand = styled.a`
diff --git a/app/javascript/src/components/actions/AlertsActions.js b/app/javascript/src/components/actions/AlertsActions.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f6ff5b175
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/javascript/src/components/actions/AlertsActions.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import shortid from "shortid";
+import {
+  ADD_ALERT,
+  CLEAR_ALERT,
+  CLEAR_ALL_ALERTS
+} from "../../config/action_types";
+
+export function addAlert(message,
+                         type,
+                         id = shortid.generate(),
+                         timeout = 5000) {
+  return {
+    payload: {
+      message,
+      type,
+      id,
+      timeout
+    },
+    type: ADD_ALERT
+  };
+}
+
+export function clearAlert(id) {
+  return { payload: id, type: CLEAR_ALERT }
+}
+
+export function clearAllAlerts() {
+  return { type: CLEAR_ALL_ALERTS };
+}
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diff --git a/app/javascript/src/components/reducers/AlertsReducers.js b/app/javascript/src/components/reducers/AlertsReducers.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..098459ca6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/javascript/src/components/reducers/AlertsReducers.js
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import {
+  ADD_ALERT,
+  CLEAR_ALERT,
+  CLEAR_ALL_ALERTS
+} from "../../config/action_types";
+
+export const alerts = (
+  state = [],
+  action
+) => {
+  switch(action.type) {
+    case ADD_ALERT:
+      return [
+        ...state,
+        {
+          message: action.payload.message,
+          type: action.payload.type,
+          id: action.payload.id,
+          timeout: action.payload.timeout
+        }
+      ];
+    case CLEAR_ALERT:
+      return state.filter((alert) => (
+        alert.id !== action.payload
+      ));
+    case CLEAR_ALL_ALERTS:
+      return [];
+    default:
+      return state;
+  }
+};
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diff --git a/app/javascript/src/config/action_types.js b/app/javascript/src/config/action_types.js
index b2d3a7443..732a81db4 100644
--- a/app/javascript/src/config/action_types.js
+++ b/app/javascript/src/config/action_types.js
@@ -35,3 +35,8 @@ export const UPDATE_TEAM_DESCRIPTION_MODAL = "UPDATE_TEAM_DESCRIPTION_MODAL";
 // spinner
 export const SPINNER_ON = "SPINNER_ON";
 export const SPINNER_OFF = "SPINNER_OFF";
+
+// alerts
+export const ADD_ALERT = "ADD_ALERT";
+export const CLEAR_ALERT = "CLEAR_ALERT";
+export const CLEAR_ALL_ALERTS = "CLEAR_ALL_ALERTS";
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diff --git a/app/javascript/src/config/reducers.js b/app/javascript/src/config/reducers.js
index 2f00797ea..5561d4cb3 100644
--- a/app/javascript/src/config/reducers.js
+++ b/app/javascript/src/config/reducers.js
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ import {
 } from "../components/reducers/TeamReducers";
 import { globalActivities } from "../components/reducers/ActivitiesReducers";
 import { currentUser } from "../components/reducers/UsersReducer";
+import { alerts } from "../components/reducers/AlertsReducers";
 
 export default combineReducers({
   current_team: setCurrentTeam,
   all_teams: getListOfTeams,
   global_activities: globalActivities,
   current_user: currentUser,
-  showLeaveTeamModal
+  showLeaveTeamModal,
+  alerts
 });
diff --git a/app/javascript/src/index.jsx b/app/javascript/src/index.jsx
index 23fbf1cb5..1328b9fca 100644
--- a/app/javascript/src/index.jsx
+++ b/app/javascript/src/index.jsx
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@ import { BrowserRouter } from "react-router-dom";
 import { Provider } from "react-redux";
 import { IntlProvider, addLocaleData } from "react-intl";
 import enLocaleData from "react-intl/locale-data/en";
+import styled from "styled-components";
 import { flattenMessages } from "./config/locales/utils";
 import messages from "./config/locales/messages";
 import store from "./config/store";
 
 import Spinner from "./components/Spinner";
+import AlertsContainer from "./components/AlertsContainer";
 import ModalsContainer from "./components/ModalsContainer";
 import SettingsPage from "./scenes/SettingsPage";
 import Navigation from "./components/Navigation";
@@ -15,14 +17,22 @@ import Navigation from "./components/Navigation";
 addLocaleData([...enLocaleData]);
 const locale = "en-US";
 
-export default () =>
+const ContentWrapper = styled.div`
+  margin-top: 15px;
+`;
+
+const ScinoteApp = () =>
   <Provider store={store}>
-    <IntlProvider locale={locale} messages={flattenMessages(messages[locale])}>
+    <IntlProvider locale={locale}
+                  messages={flattenMessages(messages[locale])}>
       <div>
         <BrowserRouter>
           <div>
             <Navigation />
-            <SettingsPage />
+            <AlertsContainer />
+            <ContentWrapper>
+              <SettingsPage />
+            </ContentWrapper>
           </div>
         </BrowserRouter>
 
@@ -31,3 +41,5 @@ export default () =>
       </div>
     </IntlProvider>
   </Provider>;
+
+export default ScinoteApp;
diff --git a/app/javascript/src/styles/animations.scss b/app/javascript/src/styles/animations.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..32a90a5a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/javascript/src/styles/animations.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+.alert-animated-enter {
+  opacity: .01;
+
+  &.alert-animated-enter-active {
+    opacity: 1;
+    transition: opacity 150ms ease-in;
+  }
+}
+
+.alert-animated-exit {
+  opacity: 1;
+  padding-bottom: 15px;
+  padding-top: 15px;
+  margin-bottom: 20px;
+  height: 50px;
+
+  &.alert-animated-exit-active {
+    overflow: hidden;
+    opacity: .01;
+    padding-top: 0;
+    padding-bottom: 0;
+    margin-bottom: 0;
+    height: 0;
+    transition: opacity 300ms ease-in,
+                padding-top 500ms ease-in,
+                padding-bottom 500ms ease-in,
+                margin-bottom 500ms ease-in,
+                height 500ms ease-in;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/app/javascript/src/styles/main.scss b/app/javascript/src/styles/main.scss
index 434b3392b..005b68e10 100644
--- a/app/javascript/src/styles/main.scss
+++ b/app/javascript/src/styles/main.scss
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 @import 'constants';
+@import 'animations';
 @import 'react-bootstrap-timezone-picker/dist/react-bootstrap-timezone-picker.min.css';
 @import '~react-bootstrap-table/dist/react-bootstrap-table.min';
 @import 'react-tagsinput/react-tagsinput.css';
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index dd89a39d0..651b0ceb2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
     "react-bootstrap-timezone-picker": "^1.0.11",
     "react-data-grid": "^2.0.2",
     "react-tagsinput": "^3.17.0",
+    "react-transition-group": "^2.2.0",
     "react-dom": "^15.6.1",
     "react-intl": "^2.3.0",
     "react-intl-redux": "^0.6.0",
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@
     "redux-thunk": "^2.2.0",
     "resolve-url-loader": "^2.1.0",
     "sass-loader": "^6.0.6",
+    "shortid": "^2.2.8",
     "style-loader": "^0.18.2",
     "styled-components": "^2.1.1",
     "webpack": "^3.2.0",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 61840a4cc..062e042d8 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1156,6 +1156,10 @@ center-align@^0.1.1:
     align-text "^0.1.3"
     lazy-cache "^1.0.3"
 
+chain-function@^1.0.0:
+  version "1.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/chain-function/-/chain-function-1.0.0.tgz#0d4ab37e7e18ead0bdc47b920764118ce58733dc"
+
 chalk@^1.0.0, chalk@^1.1.1, chalk@^1.1.3:
   version "1.1.3"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/chalk/-/chalk-1.1.3.tgz#a8115c55e4a702fe4d150abd3872822a7e09fc98"
@@ -4825,6 +4829,17 @@ react-timezone@^0.2.0:
   dependencies:
     classnames "^2.2.1"
 
+react-transition-group@^2.2.0:
+  version "2.2.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-transition-group/-/react-transition-group-2.2.0.tgz#793bf8cb15bfe91b3101b24bce1c1d2891659575"
+  dependencies:
+    chain-function "^1.0.0"
+    classnames "^2.2.5"
+    dom-helpers "^3.2.0"
+    loose-envify "^1.3.1"
+    prop-types "^15.5.8"
+    warning "^3.0.0"
+
 react@^15.6.1:
   version "15.6.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react/-/react-15.6.1.tgz#baa8434ec6780bde997cdc380b79cd33b96393df"
@@ -5298,6 +5313,10 @@ shelljs@^0.7.5:
     interpret "^1.0.0"
     rechoir "^0.6.2"
 
+shortid@^2.2.8:
+  version "2.2.8"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/shortid/-/shortid-2.2.8.tgz#033b117d6a2e975804f6f0969dbe7d3d0b355131"
+
 signal-exit@^3.0.0:
   version "3.0.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/signal-exit/-/signal-exit-3.0.2.tgz#b5fdc08f1287ea1178628e415e25132b73646c6d"