Mobile Push Template

Use Twilio Engage to build mobile push templates to include throughout your marketing campaigns.

Mobile push template types

You can choose between two mobile push template types:

• Media, which contains media and text content
• Text, which contains text content

Build a mobile push message template

Follow these steps to build a mobile push template:

1. Navigate to Engage > Content and click Create template.
2. Select Push, then click Configure.
3. Enter a template name and select your template’s language.
4. Select your template’s content type, then click Next.
   • For media templates, enter your message’s title in the Title field, its body in the Body field, add the media URL, then add any desired merge tags.
   • For text templates, enter your message’s title in the Title field, its body in the Body field, then add any desired merge tags.
5. Select a click behavior.
6. Click Test or Save to save your template.

Click behaviors

When you build a mobile push template, you can choose between three click behaviors, which determine what happens when a user taps on the mobile push:

Test your mobile push template

Follow these steps to test your mobile push:

1. Choose a template to test:
   • For new templates, select Test once you’ve finished building a template.
   • For existing templates, navigate to Engage > Content > Push, select the template you want to test, then click Test.
   • Mobile push templates have a content size limit of 4KB.
2. Choose a messaging service and add a recipient.
   • You can add recipients using an email address or user ID.
3. Click Send test push.

Segment verifies that the profile you’re sending a test to has a push token, then sends the test. If the test mobile push doesn’t work as expected, confirm that the profile you’re sending to has a push token.

Advanced settings

Badge count settings

Badge counts appear in the corner of an app icon on your user’s device. Badge counts show the number of unread notifications. During push notification setup, you can set badge count behavior from the badge count dropdown.

Choose from these badge count settings:

• Increase by: for each new notification, the badge count increases by the number you enter. Increase by is the standard behavior for badge counts.
• Decrease by: for each new notification, the previous badge count decreases by the number you enter. Use Decrease by to send notifications quietly.
• Set to: replaces all previous sent notifications with the number you enter.

Action buttons

Action buttons sit below a push notification and let your users take action on the push. You can use action buttons to encourage users to make a purchase, visit a website, or share content on social media, for example.

Follow these steps to add an action button:

1. Under Advanced Settings, click + Add action button.
2. Enter an action button identifier.
3. Enter the action button text. This is the text the user will see on the action button.
4. Choose an open action. You can choose from open app, open URL, or a custom action.

You can add up to three action buttons for each push notification.

Personalize with merge tags

Personalize mobile push content in Engage using profile traits as merge tags in your messages.

To personalize a mobile push, click Add merge tags in the template builder and select the profile traits to include in your message.

Engage inserts the selected traits inside merge tags based on cursor placement in the message. This allows you to personalize each mobile push you send to recipients. You can also use liquid templating to create dynamic content in the template editor.

Next steps

Now that you’ve built a mobile push template, you’re ready to begin sending mobile push campaigns.