13026 – How to send a web notification message to your audience

You can manually send web notifications to a specific audience. The message can be send to Everybody (All), Members of your membership site, Non Members of the membership site (Public) or Members of a specific course.

Important:
Please take note that in order for the web notifications feature to work you need first to integrate your website with Firebase.
Integrating Firebase with your website

 

To Get Started
    • Go to Boosters and then select the Notifications.
    • In the Notifications dashboard, click on the plus sign  (+) on the upper right hand corner. 
    • The Send Notification pop up window will appear. Simply complete the following settings:
    • Notification Text – the text that will appear on push notification.
    • Target Audience – select the audience who will receive the notification.
      + All – message will be sent to both members of your membership site and non members (public pages where the web notifications feature has been enabled).
      + Members – the push notification will be sent to the members and who have access to the selected course from the drop-down.
      If Members was selected for the Audience, you can then select on which members of the course to send the message (All Course or Specific Course).
      Note: Web notifications will still be received by the user even though he is not logged in. However, it will not be received if the browser is closed.
      + Non Members – Public pages where web notifications feature has been enabled.
      Note: User will be able to receive the web notifications however, you need to ensure that the Web Push Notifications option in the Page options is enabled.
    • Action – select an action you want to complete once your push notification is clicked.
      + None – (default)
      + Open Page – you may select a page from your KLEQ site that you want the users to open when they click on the notification.
      + Open URL – you may add an external URL and it will launch on the desktop’s default browser.
      + Open App – your KLEQ Mobile App will launch.
      Note: This is only available if you have enabled the mobile app on your site.
    • After you created the message and selected the target audience with the corresponding action, click on Send.
    • You should get a message that the Push notifications will be sent shortly.
    • Schedule – You may schedule when a notification message should be sent. Simply switch the toggle ON and then select the date, time, hour, minute, second and time zone in the calendar.
      + Edit – For scheduled notifications, you may still be able to edit it.
      + Delete – If you have change your mind and wants to delete the notification, you may also click on the delete button. Then, just click on Continue on the warning pop up.
Important:
Something to remember this is not an instant messaging and audiences will not receive the message real time. The message will likely take 5-10 minutes to be sent to audiences
  • If a member logs in to the membership site the message should appear and when clicked, it should open the page you have set up on the Action > Page.

That’s it. That is how to send a manual message.

 


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