Pusher Beams

About Pusher Beams

Pusher Beams is a cross-platform push notifications API for iOS, Android, and web, aimed at developers who need to deliver transactional information in realtime without building custom platform-specific integrations. It handles device token and Interests database management, authentication of users across devices via a secure channel, and broadcast delivery to subscribed devices, supporting over 1 million messages per minute per platform with automatic retry handling and scaling.

The product provides client libraries for Android, iOS, and web, and server libraries including PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Java. Notifications can be triggered from backend events using a single function call, with support for high-volume throughput and batch sending.

Beams includes a debug console and insights for observing notification delivery health, tracking whether notifications were acknowledged by devices and opened by users, and webhooks for reporting. It is used by companies including Sage HR and Timeero, the latter of which used it to build transactional notifications that reduced customer support inquiries.

Key features

• Cross-platform push notifications for iOS, Android and web
• Broadcast to unlimited subscribed devices via Device Interests, 1M+ messages per minute
• Authenticated Users for secure per-user push notification delivery
• Delivery and open tracking with reporting, webhooks and a realtime debug console
• Managed device token and Interests database with automatic retry handling
• Server SDKs for PHP, Node, Java, Python, Ruby and more

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