diff --git a/litellm/proxy/_types.py b/litellm/proxy/_types.py
index 6df6b4fe4e0..d77d096e94f 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/_types.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/_types.py
@@ -407,7 +407,9 @@ class ProxyChatCompletionRequest(LiteLLMBase):
     deployment_id: Optional[str] = None
     request_timeout: Optional[int] = None
 
-    model_config = ConfigDict(extra="allow")  # allow params not defined here, these fall in litellm.completion(**kwargs)
+    model_config = ConfigDict(
+        extra="allow"
+    )  # allow params not defined here, these fall in litellm.completion(**kwargs)
 
 
 class ModelInfoDelete(LiteLLMBase):
@@ -579,6 +581,7 @@ class NewUserRequest(GenerateKeyRequest):
     auto_create_key: bool = (
         True  # flag used for returning a key as part of the /user/new response
     )
+    send_invite_email: Optional[bool] = None
 
 
 class NewUserResponse(GenerateKeyResponse):
@@ -918,7 +921,9 @@ class KeyManagementSettings(LiteLLMBase):
 class TeamDefaultSettings(LiteLLMBase):
     team_id: str
 
-    model_config = ConfigDict(extra="allow")  # allow params not defined here, these fall in litellm.completion(**kwargs)
+    model_config = ConfigDict(
+        extra="allow"
+    )  # allow params not defined here, these fall in litellm.completion(**kwargs)
 
 
 class DynamoDBArgs(LiteLLMBase):
@@ -1112,6 +1117,7 @@ class LiteLLM_VerificationToken(LiteLLMBase):
 
     model_config = ConfigDict(protected_namespaces=())
 
+
 class LiteLLM_VerificationTokenView(LiteLLM_VerificationToken):
     """
     Combined view of litellm verification token + litellm team table (select values)
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
index 1ddf0e0687a..b1816b67ccc 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
@@ -8108,6 +8108,7 @@ async def new_user(data: NewUserRequest):
     - teams: Optional[list] - specify a list of team id's a user belongs to.
     - organization_id: Optional[str] - specify the org a user belongs to.
     - user_email: Optional[str] - Specify a user email.
+    - send_invite_email: Optional[bool] - Specify if an invite email should be sent.
     - user_role: Optional[str] - Specify a user role - "admin", "app_owner", "app_user"
     - max_budget: Optional[float] - Specify max budget for a given user.
     - models: Optional[list] - Model_name's a user is allowed to call. (if empty, key is allowed to call all models)
@@ -8144,6 +8145,27 @@ async def new_user(data: NewUserRequest):
                 ),
             )
         )
+
+    if data.send_invite_email is True:
+        event = WebhookEvent(
+            event="key_created",
+            event_group="key",
+            event_message=f"API Key Created",
+            token=response.get("token", ""),
+            spend=response.get("spend", 0.0),
+            max_budget=response.get("max_budget", 0.0),
+            user_id=response.get("user_id", None),
+            team_id=response.get("team_id", "Default Team"),
+            key_alias=response.get("key_alias", None),
+        )
+
+        # If user configured email alerting - send an Email letting their end-user know the key was created
+        asyncio.create_task(
+            proxy_logging_obj.slack_alerting_instance.send_key_created_email(
+                webhook_event=event,
+            )
+        )
+
     return NewUserResponse(
         key=response.get("token", ""),
         expires=response.get("expires", None),