Getting started with Airship

Get started with Airship messaging and mobile wallet, from creating your account to sending your first message or getting your first pass onto a device.

What is Airship?

The customer experience platform that connects every channel into journeys that adapt to each user

Try Airship with the 1st Flight app

Send Airship messages to your own device with the 1st Flight app, no code or integration required

Get started with messaging

Set up your Airship messaging project, configure the channels you need, and send your first message.

Messaging basics

Learn how messaging works, what kinds of messages Airship supports, and the tools you use to create them.

Set up your messaging project

Create an Airship account and messaging project, then hand channel configuration to your developer

Send your first message

Create a Test Group of your own recipients, then send a test message from the dashboard

The Airship dashboard

Airship's dashboard is our web interface at go.airship.com or go.airship.eu.

Manage messaging teams and access

Invite team members to your messaging projects, manage access levels, and view the activity log.

Twilio and SendGrid activation

Activate your existing Twilio SMS and SendGrid email programs for use with Airship messaging

Get started with wallet

Set up your Airship wallet account and project, design your first pass template, and get a pass onto a device.

Wallet basics

A primer on how passes work, pass types, the Wallet API, and reporting

Set up your wallet project

Get access to wallet, set up your first project and template

Create your first pass

Design your template, generate a pass link, and install your first wallet pass on a test device

The Airship dashboard

Airship's dashboard is our web interface at go.airship.com or go.airship.eu.

Manage wallet teams and access

Invite team members, manage administrator permissions, and control project access

Manage your Airship account

Manage your Airship account, plan, billing, and security across both messaging and wallet.

Airship login guidelines and account management

Learn about Airship login guidelines and behavior and how to manage your account.

Manage your company account and plan

Manage your Airship company account, transfer ownership, and change your plan or add-ons.

View usage and manage billing

View usage counts, update your payment method, and review billing and payment history.

Security

SSO, multi-factor authentication, and IP allowlists for protecting your Airship account and team access.

Get started as an Airship developer

Find everything you need to integrate Airship’s SDKs and APIs — channel configuration, authentication credentials, identifier lookups, and a Postman collection.

Finding channel IDs

Find the channel ID for a mobile app or web browser, programmatically or with the Channel Capture tool.

Configuring Mobile Channels

Configure mobile channels and push providers in the Airship dashboard for iOS and Android.

The SDKs and APIs

Airship's SDKs expose messaging and data-gathering functionality on your client devices, and our APIs support messaging mediums that can't use an SDK. Airship has SDKs for iOS, Android/Fire OS, Windows, and Web platforms. The APIs correspond to Airship's engagement (messaging) and real-time event stream products.

Set up Apple Wallet certificates

Create an Apple Pass Type ID certificate and upload it to your Airship wallet project.

Set up Google Wallet certificates and publishing access

Set up Google Wallet credentials, upload them to your project, and request publishing access

Custom Domain Proxy

Custom domain configuration for routing Airship traffic

Airship API Security

The Airship messaging API supports HTTP and OAuth authentication. Different security and authorization levels are available for both.

App Keys & Secrets: Security

In order for your app to communicate with the Airship API it must use a key and secret combination that authenticates it to your Airship app setup.

Airship Postman collection

Use our Postman public workspace to experiment with the Airship API.