Web push notifications have more features and are much cheaper compared to traditional SMS. They are generally the best choice for online businesses. However they have a drawback for physical stores: it can be hard to make the user subscribe. For SMS it is much easier: you just need to collect the phone number through a form (e.g. using paper). For web push is different: you need to tell the user to visit a given website in order to subscribe. Or… you can use QR codes! Continue reading “Marketing with QR codes and web push notifications”
Category: Web Push Notifications
Microsoft Edge now supports web push notifications
Microsoft has just announced that the latest version of Edge supports the Push API. Continue reading “Microsoft Edge now supports web push notifications”
Unique notifications in a period of time (prevent duplicated notifications)
Sometimes an event can be triggered very frequently. However you want to send a notification to the user only once in a period of time: for example you may want to notify the event with at most one notification every hour (or day, etc.). Continue reading “Unique notifications in a period of time (prevent duplicated notifications)”
Debugging service workers and push with Firefox
If you have problems with web push or with other service worker based technologies on Firefox, then you probably want to use the Firefox developer tools for debugging. Continue reading “Debugging service workers and push with Firefox”
Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey with Pushpad and Google Docs
If your website uses Pushpad for web push notifications is very easy to create a NPS survey with a high rate of responses. Continue reading “Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey with Pushpad and Google Docs”
Welcome notifications with Pushpad
Do you want to send a welcome message when a user subscribes to your web push notifications? Here’s how to create welcome notifications using Pushpad Pro. Continue reading “Welcome notifications with Pushpad”
Create welcome series with web push notifications
You can use web push notifications to create welcome series for the new users that sign up to your application. Let’s see how to create a welcome series using Pushpad. Continue reading “Create welcome series with web push notifications”
Reset browser permission for web push notifications
Many issues related to web push notifications can be solved by simply resetting the browser permission. That removes the old browser subscription and creates a new subscription. Continue reading “Reset browser permission for web push notifications”
Add web push to multiple subdomains with Pushpad
This tutorial explains how to add web push notifications to a domain and to all its subdomains using Pushpad. Continue reading “Add web push to multiple subdomains with Pushpad”
How to throttle notifications to user (and reduce cost)
Some kinds of applications, such as chats, may create a lot of push notifications in a small amount of time. Sometimes you just want to notify every single message, but other times might be better to reduce the number of notifications. Continue reading “How to throttle notifications to user (and reduce cost)”