Safari Push Notification

The Webuddy Safari Push Notification feature allows us to send notification messages to all customers that have our Magento Mobile application installed on their devices, even if the application is not currently turned on.

It can be useful if we want to send some kind of marketing messages, or some other messages to our app users to draw attention to some new product at the store, and so on.

The Push notifications feature for Magento Mobile is an extra service provided by a third-party extension.

It is an optional feature with additional costs for us as store owners, but it can bring some benefits to our sales marketing.

Apple Push Notification Service (in further text: APNS) is basically the service that Apple provides for their mobile devices (iPhone, iPad …) that can be integrated within mobile application in order to receive specific messages on device pointed to specific listener application.

For proper usage of APNS, their possibilities need to be integrated inside mobile app, and also the certificate for sending the messages has to be generated on mobile application level with Apple.

In our extension we can send push notifications for example when we want to send some kind of critical messages and coming a new product.

For setup assistance refer to https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/NotificationProgrammingGuideForWebsites/PushNotifications/PushNotifications.html

Installation:

1) Turn off Magento's Compilation Mode (if you have previously enabled it)
2) Install the extension
3) Go to var/apns directory.
There are a few files for certication and private key file
Please don't remove and change the directory ( safariPushPackage.base )
Paste your certification and private key file ( *.p12, *.pem )
4) Log in to your back-end and go to System->Configuration->Safari Push Notification
5) After setting some configuration, Refresh the Magento Cache
6) Log out of your back-end and then log back in
7) Rerun Magento's compilation process before turning it back on (if you are using it)
8) If you are going to push some notification, go to Newsletter->Manage Notification->Notifiation List
9) If you need to check some error logs, go to Newsletter->Manage Notification->Notifiation Log

Please visit our extension Safari Push Notification

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