diff --git a/data/interfaces/default/settings.html b/data/interfaces/default/settings.html
index 212d5c1b..32eed44f 100644
--- a/data/interfaces/default/settings.html
+++ b/data/interfaces/default/settings.html
@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@
                                 </div>
                                 <div id="notify_recently_added_delay_error" class="alert alert-danger settings-alert" role="alert"></div>
                             </div>
-                            <p class="help-block">Set the delay (in seconds) to wait for consecutive recently added items to group together and to allow metadata to be processed before sending the notification. Minimum 60 seconds.</p>
+                            <p class="help-block">Set the delay (in seconds) to wait for consecutive recently added items to group together and to allow metadata to be processed before sending the recently added notification. Minimum 60 seconds, default 300.</p>
                         </div>
                         <div class="form-group advanced-setting">
                             <label>Flush Recently Added</label>
diff --git a/plexpy/config.py b/plexpy/config.py
index d2947084..0ae289da 100644
--- a/plexpy/config.py
+++ b/plexpy/config.py
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ _CONFIG_DEFINITIONS = {
     'NOTIFY_GROUP_RECENTLY_ADDED': (int, 'Monitoring', 1),
     'NOTIFY_UPLOAD_POSTERS': (int, 'Monitoring', 0),
     'NOTIFY_RECENTLY_ADDED': (int, 'Monitoring', 0),
-    'NOTIFY_RECENTLY_ADDED_DELAY': (int, 'Monitoring', 60),
+    'NOTIFY_RECENTLY_ADDED_DELAY': (int, 'Monitoring', 300),
     'NOTIFY_RECENTLY_ADDED_GRANDPARENT': (int, 'Monitoring', 0),
     'NOTIFY_RECENTLY_ADDED_UPGRADE': (int, 'Monitoring', 0),
     'NOTIFY_CONCURRENT_BY_IP': (int, 'Monitoring', 0),