diff --git a/tests/test_trade_pipeline.py b/tests/test_trade_pipeline.py
index f91152539..2bad3de07 100644
--- a/tests/test_trade_pipeline.py
+++ b/tests/test_trade_pipeline.py
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 from decimal import Decimal
-
+from unittest.mock import patch
 from decouple import config
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.urls import reverse
 
 from api.models import Currency, Order
-from api.tasks import cache_market
+from api.tasks import cache_market, send_notification
 from django.contrib.admin.sites import AdminSite
 from control.models import BalanceLog
 from control.tasks import compute_node_balance, do_accounting
@@ -953,6 +953,7 @@ def test_escrow_locked_expires(self):
 
         self.assert_order_logs(data["id"])
 
+    @patch("api.tasks.send_notification.delay", send_notification)
     def test_chat(self):
         """
         Tests the chatting REST functionality