How to Use the Daily Update Flow in Your Actions

Daily update is a subscription flow that sends a notification to users when your Action has new content. This is useful for providing valuable information on a regular basis, such as weather forecasts or breaking news.

To use daily updates, first add a daily update intent to your Action. Then, configure the daily update to trigger an Assistant notification at a set time of day. In order to subscribe to your daily update, a user must invoke one of the intents you’ve configured as such and follow a prompt for subscribing, which can be given mid-conversation or as a suggestion chip when the conversation ends successfully.

When you provide a daily update registration prompt, be sure to show the value of subscribing. Then, give your users the option right away — don’t make them wait for another opportunity to subscribe. Also, when you’re creating the daily update flow, consider best practices for notifications. Since daily updates are displayed as Assistant notifications, they should be short and concise. This keeps the user’s attention and ad load low.