Use Cases

Catalyst push notification service can be used in the following scenarios, among various others:

• A taxi-booking mobile application sends push notifications to its new customers if they don’t open the app for a certain period of time after they sign up for an account. It includes engaging content that gives them brief information about the types of cabs available, and exciting deals for new users in the form of a banner image and a call-to-action button that redirects them to the app.

  The organization obtains a list of the new users from the Catalyst Data Store. This user list is passed on to be used as the recipients of the push notifications in the application’s code. The code also defines the time delay between the sign up and initiating the push message, the time of the day it must be sent, and more. This entire process is automated in Catalyst.

  
  

• An organization builds a community forum application for B2B usage that can be accessed through web browsers or in the iOS or Android platforms. The organization initially launches this app internally to a select number of users to perform beta testing.

  They use the testing feature of the Catalyst web, iOS, and Android push notifications to send test notifications and to garner insights from the interactions and responses. The feature developers register the email addresses of these select users and add their devices as test devices. When the application is ready for a release, they enable the push notification service for production devices.