API
API stands for application programming interface. It is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software. You can read more about APIs at RedHat's article on APIs.
To send notifications to your users, use MagicBell's REST API. We also offer wrappers for some programming languages that simplify the communication with our API. You can read the complete REST API reference to know more about our API.
Component
This is a term used to refer to any user interface element packaged for distribution. Components let you split the user interface into reusable pieces. MagicBell provides you with several components so you can customize your UI as much as you want.
Dashboard
Your MagicBell dashboard is the place where you can configure and customize your MagicBell experience. It's accessible at https://app.magicbell.com. You can also set up billing, configure delivery channels and keep a tab on your usage.
HMAC
In cryptography, an HMAC (sometimes expanded as either keyed-hash message authentication code or hash-based message authentication code) is a specific type of message authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function and a secret cryptographic key. As with any MAC, it may be used to simultaneously verify both the data integrity and the authenticity of a message.
Here is the definition from Wikipedia's article on HMAC.
Monthly active users (MAU)
The number of users that fetch MagicBell notifications in your site, whether you notified them or not, in a month.
Notification inbox
The notification inbox sits at the heart of the MagicBell experience for you and your users. We built it to be lightweight, responsive, and real-time. We also offer you toolkits to build custom client-side interfaces without having to start from scratch.
Notifications
Notifications come in many shapes and forms, and we love that! What you may call a notification, your co-worker may call an update, while some others may think of it as an activity. In our view, all of the following are notifications:
- A lead responded to your offer.
- Your friend tagged you in a comment.
- Your account balance just went negative.
- We just released a new feature!
On a more philosophical level, a notification is a pointer to something important. It could be a pointer to an update your users need to pay attention to or an item they need to work on. You can send a notification to one user or to a group of user. For example, as a SaaS software provider, you'd want to send billing related notifications to all the users from an organization.
User
Users are people that you send notifications to. They are your customers - the users of your product. MagicBell bills you based on the number of monthly active users (MAU).
Users can be identified by their email address or any other ID coming from your
system (we call it external_id).