Your site
Your phone
Google, Apple or Mozilla
The relay sees nothing
The phone fetches the words itself
An empty envelope
€300 · New booking
06.11 → 09.11 · guests: 4
Made-up data
You hear a new booking on your phone. The alert names no guest.
A new booking reaches your phone within a few seconds, with no extra app.
Try it on your phoneHow it works
An iPhone sends alerts only to an installed app. I have checked Android phones only, no iPhone yet.
An empty envelope crosses the relay
Google, Apple or Mozilla deliver the alert. The signal they carry holds no guest name and no dates. It is empty.
When it arrives, the phone goes to your own site, with your sign-in, and fetches the words. I never sell guest data or pass it on for advertising.
What this does not do
I say it up front, so you expect no more.
iPhone
sends alerts only to an installed app. Add the panel to the home screen first. How that is done.
Android
the browser files the alert at default importance: a sound, no pop-up. I have checked Android phones only.
The icon
an alert from a browser carries the browser’s icon. It has its own icon and name only when the panel is a separate Android app. About the separate app.
Try it yourself, it takes a minute
The demonstration is real. Nothing is booked or charged, the stay is made up, and its box lasts a day.
Open the demonstration’s panelThe demonstration’s booking page
With a phone
- Open the demonstration’s panel on your phone.
- In the menu choose “Phone alerts” and allow alerts.
- On the demonstration’s booking page, book a made-up stay.
- Your phone makes a sound.
With a computer and a phone
On a computer the panel’s menu has “Connect a phone”. It shows a QR code: scan it with the phone, confirm, then book the stay on the computer.
On a Pixel, a stay booked on a computer arrived within a few seconds.
What the alert says
A lock screen is read by anyone near the phone, so no guest is named there.
€300 · New booking
06.11 → 09.11 · guests: 4
Made-up data
The price goes first
A phone gives an alert’s title about 20 characters, so the important part comes first.
No name
You see the sum, the dates and the number of guests. The rest is in the panel when you open it.
A tap opens the booking
The alert opens the panel at that booking.
Each booking on its own
Two bookings are two alerts, not one added together.
Tell me how you take bookings
Tell me where you hear about a new booking today. I will answer and say which of this you need.
You will hear back within one working day.