Keep the public informed every step of the way

Try GC Notify, a better way to send service updates to your clients.

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Built for the Government of Canada

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  • Send consistent email messages from a trusted domain.
  • Customize your messages, while protecting  personal information.
  • Reduce the time, effort, and cost of correspondence.

How GC Notify meets government needs

What you can do with GC Notify

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Write personalised email or text messages using variables.

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Schedule and send messages to a list of recipients

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Track message delivery status in your dashboard

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Integrate email and text message notifications into your service

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Two ways to send:

  • Automatically, using the API integrated with your web application or back-office system.
  • Manually, by uploading a list of contacts as an Excel spreadsheet in GC Notify.

How to integrate GC Notify with your system

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Work more efficiently

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  • Automate sending so that whenever there is a status change, the public receives an update.
  • Improve your development tools with a secure, cloud-based messaging platform.
  • Set permission access for which people on your team can edit or send messages.
  • Transmit messages quickly, and view real-time delivery information. 

Read about GC Notify’s service level objectives

Skip the procurement process

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GC Notify is managed by the Canadian Digital Service with no costs for departments that use the service.

  • Replace paper letters or costly third-party messaging services.
  • Send up to 20 million emails and 100,000 text messages each fiscal year.
  • Send up to 10,000 emails and 1000 text messages every 24 hours. To request an increase to your daily limit, contact our support team
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GC Notify by the numbers

Learn more about activity on GC Notify

611 services using GC Notify

178,871,054 messages sent

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