diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index bd18944..4a6b6be 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: ABCindex
 Title: A Shiny app to calculate ABCI for checkerboard assays
-Version: 0.99.76
+Version: 0.99.77
 Authors@R:
   person(given = "Travis",
          family = "Blimkie",
diff --git a/R/2_upload.R b/R/2_upload.R
index bd37b4d..e3a3782 100644
--- a/R/2_upload.R
+++ b/R/2_upload.R
@@ -413,6 +413,8 @@ make_card <- function(title, height = NULL, class = NULL, content) {
 #' @return A shiny notification bubble
 #'
 notify <- function(id = NULL, list) {
+  stopifnot(all(c("type", "status", "message", "suggest") %in% names(list)))
+
   showNotification(
     id = id,
     type = list$type,