Organizations

Every PushTower account is an organization. When you sign up, we automatically create a personal organization — an organization of one — and put you in charge of it. For solo users this is invisible: you never have to think about it, and nothing in your day-to-day workflow changes.

Organizations exist so that channels, members, and billing all live in one place. Your channels belong to your organization, and your API key identifies that organization when you send.

Channels belong to your organization

Channels aren’t owned by a user directly — they belong to the organization. When you POST a notification to a channel, the API key you use tells PushTower which organization the channel belongs to. This is what makes the future team and family features possible without changing how sending works today.

Device subscriptions

Subscriptions are device-level. Each device — an iPhone, an iPad, a Mac — subscribes to channels independently. We don’t charge per device, so subscribe as many phones, tablets, and Macs as you like to any channel.

Public channels

A channel can be made public. Anyone can subscribe their own devices to a public channel without being a member of your organization — handy for status pages, release announcements, or a community alert feed.

Members & roles

Organizations will be able to have more than one member. Members are people who belong to your organization, each with a role that controls what they can do — for example, managing channels and members, or simply receiving notifications. Your personal organization stays a one-member org until you decide to invite anyone.

Groups: fan-out to a whole team

Groups bundle members together so that a single notification fans out to every member’s devices. Send once to a group, and everyone in it is notified across all their devices.

This is built for things like:

• On-call rotations — page the whole on-call group when an alert fires.
• Family announcements — one message reaches every family member’s phones and tablets.

Groups are part of the upcoming team and family plans. Personal organizations work exactly as they do today until those plans ship.

On the roadmap

A couple of related capabilities are planned but not yet available:

• Team & family plans — multi-member organizations with Groups for fan-out, as described above.
• Ingress — a re-pointable send endpoint. Today you POST to a channel’s send URL; Ingress will let you point that endpoint somewhere new without rewriting your integrations.

These are upcoming, not shipped. Everything else on this page works today.