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How to Use Personalized Push Notifications

Learn everything you’ll need to send personalized push notifications.

Written by Lara Soley

Personalized Push Notifications allow you to add customer-specific details to your push notification messages, helping your notifications feel more personal and relevant instead of generic.

Instead of sending the same message to every user, you can tailor notifications using available customer information. This helps create a more human shopping experience while keeping setup simple.

Personalization is especially useful for:

  • Abandoned cart reminders

  • Welcome notifications

  • Back-in-stock alerts

  • Inactive User Winback campaigns

  • General promotional push notifications

🔎 Available Plan

This feature is available in Platinum Plan and above.


How Personalized Push Notifications will look

Please take a look at the example below to see how your personalized push notifications will appear to your users.

📌 Important Note

The personalized variable will display correctly if the customer is logged in to the mobile app and their profile or address information is complete.

Let’s go through 3 easy steps on how to start adding personalized customer details to your push notifications.


How to Create a Personalized Push Notification

1- Open the notification section

From your Shopney dashboard, click the Notification tab (1) and select Create Notification (2).

2- Add personalization fields

2.1. While creating your push notification, click the Personalize icon in the Title or Message field.

This will open the personalization pop-up where you can choose a customer variable.

Available variables include:

  • First Name

  • City

  • State/Region

  • Country

  • Additional Fields (Customer Metafields)

2.2. After selecting a variable, you can also add a fallback value. If customer information is unavailable, the fallback value will be used.

💡Tip

We recommend adding a fallback value for every personalization variable to ensure your notifications remain clear and readable for all customers. For example, if you use the First Name variable and set the fallback value as "there", customers without a saved first name will see: ‘Hey there’.

However, if customer data is unavailable and no fallback value is provided, that portion of the notification will appear blank in the final message.

2.3. You can also choose the capitalization style

The style options are:

  • As typed

  • Uppercase

  • Lowercase

  • Capitalized

2.4. Click Insert Variable to add it to your message.

Once you insert the variable, the personalized tag will appear in your Title or Message field.

3- Preview your notification

As you make changes, use the iOS and Android previews on the right side of the screen to check how your notification may appear on mobile devices.

Example:

If your notification says:

“Hey {First Name}, your cart is waiting.”

and the customer’s first name is Lara, the customer will receive:

“Hey Lara, your cart is waiting.”

If the customer data is unavailable, the fallback value will appear instead.

💡Tip

You may also send test notifications using the Preview App. Learn more about it here.


How to Use Advanced Push Personalization in Personalized Push Notifications

Advanced Push Personalization allows merchants to personalize push notifications using Shopify Customer Metafields in addition to standard customer information such as first name, country, city, and state/region.

With this feature, you can personalize notifications with customer-specific information such as membership type, customer segment, or any other supported Customer Metafield configured in your Shopify store.

🔎 Available Plan

This feature is available in the Enterprise Plan and above.

Let’s go step by step on how you can set up Advanced Push Personalization in your Push Notifications!


1- Make sure your Customer Metafields are available

Before using a Customer Metafield in a push notification, create and configure the Customer Metafield in Shopify. Also, make sure both Customer Account API access and Storefront access are enabled for the metafield.

📌 Important Note

If there is no value for the metafield, the fallback you set is sent instead.

2- Add the Customer Metafield to Shopney

Before a Customer Metafield can appear under the relevant field, it first needs to be added to Shopney.

In your Shopney Dashboard > Notifications page, go to Settings (1) and click on Add Metafield under Personalization Fields (2). Once added, the metafield will become available under the Customer Metafields section when creating a push notification.

Added metafields can also be listed on this page, and relevant edits can be made from here as well.

Coverage shows the percentage of customers with synced data for this metafield. If data is unavailable for a customer, the fallback value will be used instead.

💡Tip

You can also add your metafields while creating your push notification.

3- Create your push notification

In your Shopney Dashboard, click on Create Notification to prepare your notification (1). Under Personalize Message, click on the + Add additional fields (2) and then add your customer metafields via Add Metafield button (3).

4- Select a Customer Metafield

Choose the metafield you want to include in your notification.

For example, you could personalize a message using information such as:

  • Membership type

  • Preferred category

  • Birthday

  • VIP status

  • Other customer-specific information stored in Shopify

The metafield will appear in the message as a readable personalization field.

5- Configure the personalization

After selecting the metafield, you can configure it just like the existing personalization options above. You can:

  1. Set a fallback value

  2. Select the preferred capitalization

  3. Click Insert Variable

If you already inserted a variable, you can update it later if you wish to change it.

For example, a notification could display “Your Birthday is coming up!” where each recipient will see the value stored in their own customer metafield.

📌 Important Note

Customer Metafield Coverage applies only to customers who have a value assigned to the selected metafield and are currently logged in to the mobile app. Customers who log out are excluded, so the available audience may vary based on logged-in customers with the relevant metafield value.

6- Send your Push Notification

Once you have reviewed the content and previews, and completed the remaining notification settings, click on Send Notification to send your push notification.

All done! Personalized Push Notifications help make your app communication feel more relevant and engaging by automatically inserting customer information into push messages.

Whether you are sending promotional campaigns, abandoned cart reminders, or welcome notifications, personalization helps your messages feel more human while remaining simple to set up.


Need Help?

If you encounter any issues, our support team is here to assist you:

  • Contact our support team via live chat in your Shopney dashboard.

  • Visit our Help Center.


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