Quickstart Guide
1. Set Up Your Organization
Start by creating a OneSignal account and setting up your organization. This will be your operational base for managing your apps and communication channels.
2. Create an App
After setting up your organization, the next step is to add an app to your OneSignal account. This involves naming your app and selecting the initial channel or platform you'd like to set up.
3. Set up a channel
OneSignal supports a wide array of channels and platforms, allowing you to engage with your audience wherever they are. Setting up your app and channels is a crucial step to ensure your messages reach your audience effectively.
Pick your first channel and follow the setup guide for that channel.
4. Configure a 2nd channel
To take full advantage of omni-channel marketing, and Journeys, we recommend setting up more than one channel. This will help you prepare your app to be able to configure automation in the future. For example, an Abandoned Cart Journey starts with Push notifications, and then follows up with Email, then SMS messages to encourage re-engagement.
Example of an Abandoned Cart Journey.
5. Make a segment
When sending out message campaigns from the dashboard, you'll need to create an Audience. Your Audience is composed of Subscriptions grouped by segments.
For example, you can use data tags to build a segment.
6. Send to your audience
Now you can design a message to send to your Audience. Remember, we support event triggered messaging in Journeys.
Navigate to messages > Push > New Push
- Select your Audience Segment
- Add the Message content
- Select your sending schedule
Image showing push editor message contents
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