Notifications
PassEntry supports wallet-native push notifications on both the Apple and Google Wallet.
Use notifications to deliver timely and relevant updates to your customers, such as when the time for an event has changed or that their membership is about to expire. A push notification message will appear on the lock screen and will be stored on the back of the pass as the “Latest Update”.
Best practices
Currently limits their push notifications to 3 per day per pass, if you go over this quota, the passholder will not receive a push notification on their lock screen, but it will update the “Latest Update” on the back of the pass.
We suggest limiting the maximum number of notifications per day per pass to 3
Sending Notifications
If sending notifications to an individual pass, use our Send Notification endpoint.
If you wish to send notification alongside a pass update, you can do so using our Update Pass or Update loyalty balance endpoints
Including a link in the notification
When including a link in the notification, the link will be opened when the user taps the notification. However, the format of a clickable link is different for each platform.
We offer a simple solution to generate a clickable link for both platforms.
Include a valid URL in your notification.
“Visit https://www.passentry.com for more!” or “Visit passentry.com for more!”
In order to make the link clickable, the user must press and hold the notification until the link is highlighted.
Apple does not support HTML tags in notifications, but autodetects the link and makes it clickable.
Using PassEntry’s link generator
As the device type is not always known, we offer a simple solution to generate a clickable link for both platforms.
To create a link, enclose the link text in brackets (e.g., [this link]) and then follow it immediately with the URL in parentheses (e.g., (https://passentry.com)).
Visit [this link](https://passentry.com) for more!
We will automatically generate the correct link for the platform.
You must include the link text [this link] in the notification, and the URL in parentheses (e.g., (https://passentry.com)).
The URL must always begin with http:// or https://
Link text is ignored on Apple, but will appear on Google. It is always required, if you don’t want to show any custom text, the link text should be the same as the URL text.
Example:
The following notification Visit [this link](https://passentry.com) for more! will be displayed as:
Apple: Visit https://passentry.com for more!
Google: Visit this link for more!
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