OneSignal vs. Waterfall

I think One Signal is very well suited for mobile app owners who want to be in touch with their user base more easily by sending push notifications and in-app messages. I'm not sure how well that works for SMS messaging as I haven't yet tried it. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it if your in-apps are very rare.

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From our experience, it seems to be a very effective tool reaching out to the younger population for educational purposes. However, it seems to get a better reply rate with the older population.

Incentivized

• Send instant notifications without any delay.
• Provide all the necessary features for testing.
• Highly cost effective.
• Great system to handle huge volume.
• Great customer support.

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• Customer service. You have your own point of contact. They are very supportive and helpful. They always respond quickly.
• Their deep non-profit discount.
• Their message schedules. Very flexible and it can be a relative schedule to say a pregnant woman's due date and someone's goal date for quit smoking, etc.

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• They should develop features a bit faster as per user requirements.
• Old users should get freemium model for new features.
• Admin can look a bit better.
• In-built and easy to use segmentation should be there too.

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• Some features require additional cost. The nature of growth means the product becomes more expensive and that is a problem for some buyers.

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I give an 8 in this question mainly for 2 reasons: the products even if they look like complete and are highly customizable and usable, they are still missing some logical features. For example, send messages to a list of users - now days you can do it with postman and get calls. A second example is App messaging that is still in development and has many opportunities.

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Their customer support has been top-notch. They are able to assist you in getting through any problems that you may have and respond in a very timely manner. I've dealt with them on 4-5 instances over the years and my issues were always resolved within a matter of a few business days.

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Look Firebase is a complete platform that includes a Push notification/InApp space. We had a lot of troubles while implementing Firebase: sometimes we thought it was ready until we tried to attach an image for Push notifications. This being said, the developers had to review the integration several times until we decided to change to OneSignal. Also while using Firebase I was not convinced with the look and feel of the Notifications. My vote here is OneSignal.

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Revere SMS. Another enterprise level SMS provider in the non-profit space, but their inability to schedule welcome series and other deficiencies make them a lesser product.

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• We've seen direct-purchase conversions on new offers.
• It does a great job of driving traffic to off-site locations like YouTube for new videos.

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• We have worked with several clients to help them launch and grow their SMS program and the platform helps us doing cutting edge work in this space.

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