Channels

Channels let you group related notifications. Every channel lives within your organization — for a solo account that’s just your personal organization — and gets its own API key that can be configured independently.

Devices subscribe to channels individually, so you can point as many phones, tablets, and Macs at a channel as you like. You POST notifications to a channel to send; the API key identifies the organization the channel belongs to.

Creating a Channel

You can create channels from the dashboard or via the API:

curl -X POST https://api.pushtower.com/v1/channels \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{ "name": "server-alerts" }'

Channel Settings

Each channel supports:

• Custom sounds — Upload your own notification sounds
• Priority levels — Control how notifications are delivered
• Rate limits — Prevent notification floods
• Encryption — End-to-end encrypt sensitive payloads

Use Cases