Create a messaging project

Create a new project

1. Click Create project in the upper right corner of the DashboardThe Airship web interface located at go.airship.com or go.airship.eu. , and select Messaging Project.
2. Enter details about your project.

   

   • Project Name — Enter a descriptive name for your project. You can change it later.
   • Icon (Optional) — Upload your icon. This does not have to be the same icon you submit to app marketplaces, but that is the typical practice.
   • Type — Specify whether this project is live or for testing. If this is your first time configuring a project for Airship, you should choose Test. This setting cannot be changed later.
   • Industry Select an industry type and sub-industry. This is used for reporting.
      Tip

     • Project Name —  If you work in a large organization with multiple projects, keep in mind that other people in your company may need to search for this project, so give it as descriptive a name as possible and adopt a naming convention. Examples: Anytown News iOS - Development, McDowell’s Chicago Android - Production.

     • Live/Test — Ultimately, you should have both a Test build (development for sending test messages) and a Live build (production for sending messages to customers).

       Apple treats the two servers separately, so a device token for test sandbox will not work on production sandbox. Because of this, we suggest making two projects in the Airship dashboard. Configure the development credentials for the test project, and production credentials for live project. Then switch between the two credentials using the inProduction flag when configuring the Airship SDK.

3. Click Create project. The next screen will be Messages OverviewA view of all your project’s messages, with options for editing their settings, content, status, and more. . Now you can configure channels for your project.

Configure channels

After creating a project, you can configure the channels you want to send messages to. See the linked setup information for each:

• Mobile apps
  • Android/Amazon
  • iOS
  • Apple News
• Web
• Email
• SMS
• Open Channels

After completing channel configuration, create a test group you will use as the recipient for your first message.

Industry types

When creating a new messaging project, you will set your Industry. You can edit your industry in Settings » Project Details after you set up your project.

Business

Projects that provide a B2B or B2E utility, meant to be used by B2B customers or employees of businesses. Includes app interfaces or versions of B2B SaaS platforms.

Charities, Foundations, and Non-Profit

Projects that provide an interface between the end user and a non-profit entity, charity, foundation, and/or projects whose purpose is to generate revenue for a cause.

Education

Projects that provide training and learning opportunities for consumers, as well as those for schools or learning institutions.

Entertainment

Projects that provide entertainment in the form of video streaming, music, movies, TV, radio, and artist representation.

Finance

Finance, banking, investment, insurance management.

Food & Drink

Projects managed by restaurants and beverage companies, as well as recipe/cooking content.

Gambling

Projects that allow you to place bets/gamble.

Gaming

Projects that include free and paid gaming.

Government

Local, state, or national government services and tools.

Media

Projects that include national & breaking news, local news, newsstand, books, magazines, as well as radio.

Medical, Health & Fitness

Fitness tracking, health management, pharmacy, health reference.

Retail

Grocery, discount/deals, specialty retail (i.e., greeting cards or toys), fashion, big box/warehouse.

Social

Networking, messaging, dating, communication.

Sports & Recreation

Sports teams, sports news, recreation.

Travel & Transportation

Airline, automotive, hotel, bookings, rail, vacation rental, public transportation.

Utility & Productivity

Navigation, reference, weather, other tools for productivity.