# Push notifications

Marketing and promotions

Push notifications are short messages that appear on the customer's screen through the browser, even when your store is not open - a new collection, a flash sale, back in stock. GrandNode sends them through **Firebase Cloud Messaging** (Google), so you need a free Firebase project.

### Set up

1. Create a project in the Firebase console and add a web app. Copy its configuration values.
2. Open **Settings → Push notifications settings**, tick **Enabled**, and enter the **Private Api Key**, **Public Api Key**, **Auth Domain**, **Project Id**, **Storage Bucket**, **Sender Id** and **AppId**.
3. Decide whether guests may subscribe (**Allow guest notifications**) and save.

![Push notifications settings with a note that Firebase is used, a warning to press Save after every upgrade, Enabled and Allow guest notifications switches and the Firebase key fields](https://grandnode.com/Plugins/Theme.GrandNodeCom/Content/kb/marketing/push-settings.webp)

Settings → Push notifications settings.

> As the warning on the page says: press **Save** on this page again after every GrandNode upgrade - the upgrade rewrites the registration script and the settings have to be written into it again.

### Who receives them

When push notifications are enabled, the storefront asks visitors whether they want to receive notifications. Those who allow it appear in **Marketing → Push notifications → Receivers**, where you can also remove a receiver.

### Send a notification

1. Open **Marketing → Push notifications → Send**.
2. Enter the **Title** and **Message text**, the **Click Url** the notification opens (a product, a category, a page), and optionally a **Picture**.
3. Click **Send**. The message goes to all receivers.

![The Send push notification page with title, message text, click URL and picture upload, and a Send button](https://grandnode.com/Plugins/Theme.GrandNodeCom/Content/kb/marketing/push-send.webp)

Marketing → Push notifications → Send.

**Messages** lists the notifications that were sent.

### Tips

- Browsers show the permission prompt only on HTTPS.
- Send rarely and only what is worth an interruption; a visitor who blocks notifications cannot be asked again.

### Related

- [Newsletter, campaigns and the contact form](https://grandnode.com/marketing-newsletter-campaigns)

- [Web page](https://grandnode.com/marketing-push-notifications)