OneSignal
How you send push notifications to your users. Free.
OneSignal is how you'll actually send push notifications — a new listing, a price drop, a reply to an enquiry. It gives you a dashboard to write and target messages without needing us.
Free for the audience sizes a property app has. About fifteen minutes.
Your own account, not a shared one
Every client gets their own OneSignal app. This isn't bureaucracy: OneSignal decides who receives a notification based on which app it was sent from. Two businesses sharing one app means one company's announcement can land on the other's users' phones.
So: your account, your app, your subscriber list.
Create it
Sign up at onesignal.com, then New App/Website:
- Name it after your company
- You'll be asked to configure platforms — do Google Android and Apple iOS both
Android asks for Firebase credentials. OneSignal will walk you through it; it needs a service account key from the Firebase project you created. If we have Editor access there, we can do this part.
iOS asks for your APNs key — the same .p8 from your Apple setup, plus its Key ID and your Team ID. One file, used in two places; you don't need a second one.
Add us
Settings → Organization / Team → invite the email we give you.
Alternatively, send us the App ID and API key below and we'll wire it up without needing access to your account. Either works.
Where to find your App ID
Settings → Keys & IDs. The App ID is a long value with dashes.
What to send us
- OneSignal App ID
- Confirmation that both iOS and Android platforms are configured
The App ID identifies your app rather than granting access, so ordinary email is fine.
Once you're live
The OneSignal dashboard is yours. You write a message, choose who gets it, and send — no involvement from us.
Two things worth knowing before your first send:
- Notifications can't be recalled. Once sent, they're on people's phones. Send to a test segment of one first — yourself.
- People who turn off notifications are gone for good unless they re-enable them in phone settings, which nobody does. Frequency is the fastest way to lose an audience. Most property apps do well with a handful a month.