An Announcements page is for pushing updates to your audience — "buses are leaving in ten minutes", "the keynote deck is on the Documents page". Things people need to see now.
It is a Social Feed page that starts with different settings.
When you add one, it starts out like this:
Only you and your team members can post. Everybody else reads.
Comments and likes are off.
Posts appear as a list, newest first.
Every post goes out as a push notification.
Admins-only posting is what makes the page work: because nobody else can post, everything on it is something you sent, and an attendee scrolling it finds only the updates that matter. If you also want a page your attendees can post to, add a separate Social Feed page for that rather than opening this one up.
For everything these pages can do, read our Getting Started with Social Feed Pages Guide.
Adding an Announcements page
Go to Add Page in the Editor and choose Announcements.
Posting an announcement
Announcements are written in the Yapp app on your phone or tablet, signed in as the account owner or a team member. Follow these instructions.
Creating a scheduled post
If you already know what you need to say and when, create a scheduled post and it will go out at the time you set. Follow these instructions.
Writing an announcement people will actually read
An announcement has no length limit, but the notification on somebody's lock screen is cut off after roughly the first 100 characters — and many people read only that. Read How much of an announcement shows in a notification.
Letting attendees reply
Comments and likes are off to begin with, which keeps the page a clean list of updates. If you do want people to be able to respond to an announcement, turn comments on by following these instructions.
Reference
Social Feed Page — the same page type, open to everyone
If you need help setting up your own Announcements page, contact us at support@yapp.us.