Step 1: Finalize your Jotform project
Progressier is a tool that lets you add extra features, like PWA installation and push notifications to your Jotform web app. When your app is ready to launch and accessible at a custom domain, you can incorporate Progressier into your project to enhance its capabilities.
Ensure your Jotform app is embeddable in an iFrame (not absolutely required, but recommended).
Step 2: Create a new Progressier account
Progressier is an all-in-one no-code toolkit for web apps. It usually takes 2 minutes or less to integrate Progressier with Jotform.
If you haven’t done so already, create your Progressier account. It comes with a free trial (no credit card required!) so you can test all features free of charge for 14 days without risk.
Step 3: Turn your Jotform project into a PWA
After signing up, you'll be prompted to enter a few details about your app, e.g. how it was built (choose Jotform), the name of your app, and its domain.
Step 4: Complete the installation process
We'll show you a series of tasks. These tasks are easy and shouldn't take you more than a few minutes to complete. If you run any bottlenecks, reach out to us using the Intercom widget at the bottom-right corner of the page.
Step 5: Allow push notifications
Progressier does not directly enhance your existing Jotform domain with push notifications due to some additional limitations with Jotform compared to other no-code builders. To provide installation and push functionality for your app, we create a wrapper around it at a custom domain built specifically for your app.
Go to the custom domain we've provided you in the Progressier dashboard and click on the icon in the URL bar to allow notifications.
Step 6: Notify yourself
Our Push Composer allows you to compose a notification, select a specific group of users of your Jotform app to send it to, and even schedule its actual delivery from 15 minutes to 14 days in the future.
Once you've clicked Send now, Progressier will automatically dispatch your notifications and notify each device that has authorized push notifications on your domain. Notifications are typically received within a few seconds.
How can push notifications enhance your Jotform app
Push notifications can improve user engagement with your Jotform PWA, increase retention, decrease churn, and provide a better overall user experience by delivering timely and relevant updates and information to users in a convenient manner.
Push notifications can serve as a reminder for users to open your Jotform app, which can help increase traffic. For instance, a news app could send push notifications about breaking stories or updates to encourage app usage.
Jotform push notifications: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Some users may consider push notifications to be obtrusive, especially if they're not personalized and used as a marketing tool. Make sure to use them sparingly.
What are the best push services for Jotform apps?
There are many different push notification service providers to choose from for your Jotform app, and the best one for you will depend on your specific needs and requirements. Some of the most popular push notification service providers include:
- Firebase Cloud Messaging: a cross-platform messaging solution that lets you reliably deliver messages at no cost. You can use FCM to send messages to clients on iOS, Android, and the web, as well as on desktop applications.
- OneSignal: Probably the most popular option for push notifications. OneSignal works well across platforms and provides more options than FCM but can be quite costly, especially at scale.
- Progressier: probably the best option if you develop web apps as it also comes with additional functionality designed to enhance web apps specifically, e.g. targeted push notifications.
- TruePush: Another popular option for developers to integrate push notifications into their Jotform app.
Developing your own push notification solution
If you're using Jotform, it's likely you value simplicity and getting things done quickly. Building your own push service requires code (a ton of it!) and is a non-trivial engineering effort. While sending a notification to one user is easy, sending it to many simultaneously is pretty hard and requires capabilities that can't be replicated in no-code or low-code platforms.
What devices and browsers are compatible with push notifications?
The Web Push API is compatible with Windows (via Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera), macOS (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari), Android (Samsung Internet, Chrome, Firefox) and iOS (Safari).
