The Courier Blog
How to Add Toast Notifications with the New Courier Toasts SDK
Learn how to add real-time, customizable toast notifications to your app with the Courier Toasts SDK. This quick tutorial shows how to integrate toasts using Web Components or React and sync them with your notification center for a seamless, modern UX.
How to Build a Notification Center for Web & Mobile
A notification center is a familiar pattern (a bell, an unread count, a feed) sitting on a deeper system of real-time delivery, cross-device state, and storage. This guide covers how one works, how to build it with React and React Native, and how to decide whether to build or buy.
Announcing Toasts for In-App Product Notifications
Courier Toasts has been completely rebuilt for Web Components and React. Ship polished toast experiences without building notification infrastructure yourself. Deliver real-time, customizable in-app notifications powered by a single message feed.
What Is a Toast Message? Toasts vs. Snackbars, Banners & Push Notifications
Toast messages are fast and lightweight, but when should you reach for a snackbar, banner, or push notification instead? Learn to pick the right in-app pattern.
What is the Twilio Messaging API?
Twilio's Messaging API enables developers to send and receive SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, and RCS messages at scale across 180+ countries. While Twilio excels at reliable message delivery through carrier networks, modern applications need more than single-channel messaging. Courier acts as a provider-agnostic orchestration layer that activates messaging across Twilio and other channels from a single platform. You get intelligent routing, user preference management, and fallback logic without vendor lock-in.
Top 20 Notification Examples That Actually Drive Engagement
Explore 20 stellar notification examples from industry leaders like Rippling, Slack, FedEx, Crocs, Miro, Trustpilot, OpenTable, and BambooHR that actually drive engagement. From payday celebrations to healthcare reminders, these patterns showcase what makes notifications effective across email, SMS, push, and in-app channels. Courier's enterprise platform enables intelligent routing, multi-channel orchestration, and universal inbox integration to implement these proven patterns at scale.
Top 10 Rules for SMS Messaging
Transactional SMS gives you 160 characters to communicate something critical, and that drops to 70 the moment an emoji or curly quote sneaks into the copy. This guide covers 10 rules for delivery confirmations, security alerts, and payment notifications: leading with the outcome, making your brand unmistakable, respecting the character limit, making the next step obvious, keeping links trustworthy, sharing just enough context, handling security scenarios, getting timing right, offering a real escape route, and building templates that survive production data. Each rule includes weak and better versions of a real message with exact character counts.
What Most People Get Wrong About Push Notification Metrics
Push notification analytics have evolved beyond traditional engagement metrics, yet many teams still rely on outdated measurement approaches that obscure real business value. The challenge lies in applying email marketing metrics to push notifications without considering fundamental differences in user behavior and platform constraints. A notification that never gets "opened" might still drive a purchase decision or prevent user churn.
How to Embed a Template Designer into Your React Application
Multi-tenant SaaS platforms struggle with giving customers template design control without compromising security. Courier Create solves this with an embeddable React component that provides drag-and-drop editing, variable substitution, and brand customization while maintaining tenant isolation. Learn how companies like Side and Hipages benefit from customer-controlled templates, plus get setup code examples for React 18.2+ integration.