Adding Auto App Push Notifications is a fantastic way to keep your congregation informed the moment areas of your app are updated. The three areas are prayer requests, video, and audio. Lets dive into the details.
Tithely Tip
To ensure your members receive push notifications, verify that they have joined notification groups within the app and have enabled push notifications in their mobile device settings.
How to Enable Auto-Notifications
- Log into your account and select Apps.
Note: You will need admin permissions for apps to edit apps. - Select Push Notifications from the Apps menu.
- Select Auto-Notifications.
- Locate the Auto-Notification you would like to enable, your options are:
- Prayer Requests - these automatic notifications will be sent to all app users when a new post is added to the prayer wall (admins can edit the recipients of notifications to include select notification groups only)
- Video - These automatic notifications will be sent to all app users when a new video is posted to the app either manually or through an RSS feed. (admins can edit the recipients of notifications to include select notification groups only)
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Audio - These automatic notifications will be sent to all app users when new audio is posted to the app either manually or through an RSS feed. (admins can edit the recipients of notifications to include select notification groups only)
- Toggle the On/Off area to enable notifications.
- Once toggled to On a modal will appear to set the details for your auto-notification.
- Select your preferences for Send Notification to. By default, this will be set to Everyone. Select + Edit Recipients to add a group.
- To add a specific group select + Edit Recipients.
- Select Select Specific Groups.
- Check the bubble next to the groups you would like this auto-notification to be sent to.
- Select Continue.
- Next, add a Title.
Note: This will be the title of the notification as it appears on a user's lock screen or inside their Tithely App notifications section. - Enter a Message.
Note: This will be the message of the notification sent. - Add a Photo/Add From Media. (Optional)
- Select Confirm Auto-Notification.
The Apps Dashboard will appear like this once Auto-Notifications start sending