How to Set Custom Push Notifications

Push notifications are a handy tool that show up on a user’s phone screen, reminding them to interact with an app. You can now set custom notifications every time you publish a new workout to your app, including programs, categories, and challenges. Sending a custom notification is a great way to notify your users of new workouts while maintaining personalized, on-brand messaging.

Here’s how to do it:
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Create a new workout and tap on “Publish.”

Tap on “Add push notification” to set a custom notification.

Type out your custom notification — staying within the 200 character limit — and tap on “Done” when complete.

NOTE: Use keywords (new, exclusive, just added, etc.) and consider using emojis to make your notification stand out.

Select a program or category to publish your workout to and tap on “Publish Now”.

That’s it! Shortly after publishing your workout, a notification will be sent out to your subscribers.

Note: If you choose not to set a custom push notification, your subscribers will receive a default Playbook notification structured in the following way: “[your name] just published [workout title]!”

Additionally, if you add workouts to a program that you've duplicated but haven't published yet, then go ahead and publish the program, your users won’t receive push notifications for the individual workouts in the program. They will, however, receive one notification that a new program was published. The workout stats (begins, completions, comments and likes) for such programs would be reset.