Sending a Courier Inbox Message

When you're ready to send a message, it's exactly like sending any other Courier notification, with the difference being that you are sending it to the inbox channel.

{
	"message": {
		"to": {
			"user_id": <USER_ID>
		},
		"content": {
			"title": "How does {{ villain }} like his toast?",
			"body": "On the dark side."
		},
		"data": {
			"villain": "Darth Vader"
		}
		"routing": {
			"method": "single",
			"channels": ["inbox"]
		}
	}
}

Passing Data for an Inbox Request

If you provide information in the data field, it will be passed automatically through to the SDK.

tip

If you pass information in data that isn't referenced in your content payload or in a template that you specify, it will still be passed through to your app. For example, this is useful when trying to launch a specific screen in your app on mobile with a deep link:

data.deeplinkUrl = https://starwars.com/villains/darth_maul

Using Courier Elemental Syntax

Inbox SDKs support a subset of Elemental syntax for composing inline messages.

Element	Web	iOS	Android
Title	✅	✅	✅
Body	✅	✅	✅
Text	✅
Action	✅	✅	✅