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Presently I am using Pushbots to send notification to all my Android subscribers. However, to send unlimited messages I have to pay 500 USD/month.

My app is build in Cordova. Please let me know if there is another way to do the same.

Thanks in advance!

AL.
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  • how many subscribers do you have? how often do you want to send push notifications? – haxxxton Jan 16 '17 at 05:31
  • FCM [is free](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/). – manish Jan 16 '17 at 06:56
  • Currently approx. 37k, so by sending couple of messages for each transaction/promotion adds to cost. Yes, I am looking into FCM. I just found out Firebase has a cordova plugin. Do you know whether it works across platforms such as iOS and windows mobile ? Anyways thanks for your time! – Sourav Biswas Jan 16 '17 at 16:33

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Use Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), previous version known as Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), is completely free of charge. See Firebase Pricing:

Included Free

Analytics, App Indexing, Authentication, Cloud Messaging, Crash Reporting, Dynamic Links, Invites, Notifications & Remote Config

A quick Google search shows that there is an available FCM Cordova Plugin. Then you should go ahead and make use of Topic Messaging. From the plugin link:

Subscribe to topic

//FCMPlugin.subscribeToTopic( topic, successCallback(msg), errorCallback(err) );
//All devices are subscribed automatically to 'all' and 'ios' or 'android' topic respectively.
//Must match the following regular expression: "[a-zA-Z0-9-_.~%]{1,900}".
FCMPlugin.subscribeToTopic('topicExample');

The idea is quite simple. Simply have all your users subscribed to a topic, then send a message towards that topic, and it should be delivered to all of them.

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  • Thanks sir! Do you know whether it works across platforms such as iOS and windows mobile ? – Sourav Biswas Jan 16 '17 at 16:34
  • @SouravBiswas It works for [iOS](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/ios/client). For Windows Phone, I don't think so. See the comment by Arthur Thompson in this [post](http://stackoverflow.com/q/38150309/4625829). – AL. Jan 17 '17 at 02:27