Benefits

Simple One-Time Configurations to Avail Push Notifications

Push notifications in your Catalyst web or mobile applications can help engage users with customized content periodically, or when the user hasn’t visited the application in a while. You can integrate action elements into the notifications so the user can interact with your application directly in the notification panel even when your app is idle on their device.

All these can be accomplished with a few simple one-time configurations from your end, based on your app’s platform. Catalyst removes your efforts in provisioning servers or infrastructure to handle push notifications by taking care of all the backend setup for all of its supported platforms and establishing communication with the respective push service.

High Throughput in Delivery

Catalyst plays a pivotal role in ensuring a high delivery rate of push notifications, that keeps pace with the throughput of the notifications that you send from the application.

Catalyst servers are fast and are capable of instantly delivering your push messages to the intended push service workers for web push notifications, APNs servers for iOS push notifications, and FCM for Android push notifications. You can experience lag-free and instantaneous delivery of push messages from your application.

High Scalability and Auto-Scaling

Catalyst servers scale automatically and allocate required resources to your application whenever the load increases. The resources are scaled up or down instantly based on the throughput of the push messages received for your application.

Catalyst is built on Zoho’s tried-and-tested robust infrastructure that can handle high volumes of requests and ensure consistency in your app’s performance. This also eliminates failures in delivering the notifications due to heavy loads.

Engage Users Suited to your Business Needs

You can engage with your application users in numerous ways by incorporating a variety of elements in your push notifications, such as CTA buttons, audio or video attachments. There are also no restrictions on the number of messages that you can send to the users of your application from Catalyst’s end. For iOS apps, the standards for the limit to the number of push notifications that you can send are set by Apple. Likewise, the limits for Android apps are defined by Google.

For web applications, the standards vary with each push service or browser. However, most browsers do not impose heavy limits on push notifications, and this enables you to use Catalyst’s service to fit your business needs. You can refer to our SDK and API documentation for any limits on recipient count.

Send Manual or Automated Push Notifications

Catalyst facilitates manual as well as scheduled, automated push notifications, which you can incorporate based on your requirements. For example, you can implement a pop-up or something similar in the admin access of your application for your app’s admins to type in and send manual push notifications to specific target users. You can also implement automated push notifications and schedule them in your business logic.

Catalyst provides ready-to-use code in the client SDKs to enable push notifications for user devices for the web, iOS, or Android app, as required. You can send push notifications to an unrestricted number of user devices by similarly implementing the readily-available methods from our server-side SDKs (Java, Node.js, and Python platforms) in your codebase, or through our API.

With this ease of implementation, Catalyst reduces your workload in configuring push notifications for your apps substantially.

Test Push Notifications before Implementation

You can avail of the provision to test push notifications in your web or mobile application before you implement them in Catalyst. You can register user devices as test devices in your iOS or Android apps and send test notifications to them from the Catalyst console or through API. Catalyst also enables you to test push notifications in your web apps through the console or API. You can then incorporate sending push notifications in your codebase for production devices.