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The ultimate guide to in-app notifications
Learn what in-app notifications are, top use cases of in-app notifications, and decide whether you should build or buy in-app notifications.
Increase delivery rates, open rates, and conversion rates at a fraction of SMS costs with beautiful notification messages delivered directly to your app's message center.
Delivery rate
200%
Open rates vs. mobile push & SMS
Messages delivered monthly
"Sendbird has proven to be very helpful in significantly increasing notification engagement. We have been able to achieve higher conversions along with greater savings on our SMS communications. The successful integration of notification solutions into the system has seen a surge in our brand-to-user communications."
Deliver media-rich, WhatsApp-like notifications directly to your app's message center and boost conversions.
Start with your most cost-effective, data-rich, and high-converting in-app notification channel.
Say goodbye to intrusive, pop-up-style notifications. Instead, craft on-brand, custom in-app notifications users read and act on.
Leverage new user-level data from in-app notifications to enhance your campaign/outreaches.
Integrate a message center into your apps with our single code line UI kits, or build a custom implementation with our iOS, Android, Flutter, and JS SDKs. Leverage our omnichannel customer messaging API and webhooks to send in-app notifications seamlessly from your stack.
import UIKit
import SendbirdChatSDK
let initParams = InitParams(applicationId: "APP_ID", isLocalCachingEnabled: true)
SendbirdChat.initialize(params: initParams, migrationStartHandler: {},
completionHandler: { error in
FeedChannel.getChannel(url: "FEED_CHANNEL_URL") { channel, error in
self.collection =
SendbirdChat.createNotificationCollection(channel: channel, startingPoint:
Int64.max, params: params, delegate: self)
}
}
)
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