# Creating an Automated Notification

Automated Notifications let you set up push notifications that send automatically on a recurring schedule, triggered by date-based conditions in your contact data.

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### When to use Automated Notifications

Automated Notifications are useful for time-based or lifecycle messaging, for example:

* Sending a birthday notification
* Notifying a contact before their subscription expires
* Sending a welcome notification when a device is first registered, with follow-ups one week and two weeks later

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### Creating an Automated Notification

When you create an Automated Notification you are taken to the Automated Notification Dashboard. From here you can step through the wizard across the following sections:

1. **Content and Preview**
2. **Filter**
3. **Recurrence**
4. **Activate**

An Automated Notification will not run until it has been activated. Once activated, the dashboard updates to include reporting and history. To make changes, deactivate the notification first.

Use **Run Now** to trigger the Automated Notification immediately outside of its schedule.

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### Content and Preview

Content and Preview works the same way as for a standard notification. See Notification Templates for details on the available content fields.

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### Filter

The filter for an Automated Notification works similarly to a standard notification filter, with the addition of a **When Filter**.

#### When Filter

The When Filter lets you target contacts based on date fields, using relative operators such as:

* *5 days after Sign-up Date*
* *2 days before the anniversary of Birthdate*

**Anniversary options** ignore the year part of a date. This is useful for recurring annual events like birthdays — you compare only the day and month, so the notification sends each year on the right date.

The Filter and the When Filter work together as an **AND** condition — both must be true for a contact to be included.

*Example: Filter — City = Auckland, When Filter — 2 days before the anniversary of Birthdate. This will only send to contacts in Auckland, two days before their birthday.*

You can preview your filter and When Filter against your registered devices by selecting a date and clicking **Refresh**.

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### Recurrence

Set how often the Automated Notification should run — for example, daily, weekly, or monthly.

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### Activate

Once you are satisfied with your setup, activate the Automated Notification. The dashboard will update to show reporting and a history of runs.

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### Notification Projections

Once your Automated Notification is active, the **Notification Projections** section shows how many notifications are expected to be sent on future dates. Click on a date to see the projected send count for that day.

Projections are estimates based on current data. The actual number sent may differ if your database changes before that date.


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