Ghost new member notifications on your phone.
Get a push notification when someone signs up as a member of your Ghost site, louder when they sign up as a paying member.
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New member
Get a push notification when someone signs up as a member of your Ghost site, louder when they sign up as a paying member.
Three steps to your first push
STEP 01
Install the recipe
One click in Studio gives you a personal webhook URL.
STEP 02
Paste your URL into Ghost
Add it as a webhook for Member added.
STEP 03
Get a push on your phone
With the text, sound and buttons from the recipe.
How to set up the Ghost member added webhook
- Click Install in Studio and sign in. The recipe is added to your account and you get a personal webhook URL.
- In Ghost Admin, go to Settings > Advanced > Integrations and click Add custom integration (name it JustPush).
- Click Add webhook, pick Member added as the event and paste your webhook URL as the target URL.https://••••••••/•••••••• your personal URL, shown after install
- Leave the secret empty (JustPush doesn't check it yet) and save.
- To get a **View member** button that opens the member in Ghost Admin, add your site's address to the target URL:
- ```
- your webhook URL?site=https://yoursite.com
- ```
- Ghost can sign webhooks with a secret (`X-Ghost-Signature`), but JustPush doesn't check that signature yet, so leave the secret empty and keep your endpoint URL private.
- On Ghost(Pro), custom integrations need a plan that includes them; self-hosted Ghost always has them.
What runs when the webhook arrives
Studio calls handleRequest(request) with the incoming webhook and sends the message it returns. It's yours after install; change anything.
transform.js
1// Ghost → member.added (new member)
2// Fires when someone signs up as a member of your Ghost site, free or paid, or when
3// you add or import one in Ghost Admin.
4// Docs: https://docs.ghost.org/webhooks
5
6// Member statuses, and how to title the push for each.
7const TITLES = {
8 free: "👋 New member",
9 paid: "💰 New paid member",
10 comped: "🎁 New complimentary member",
11 gift: "🎁 New gift member",
12}
13
14// Ghost sends plain strings; treat blanks as missing.
15function text(value) {
16 return typeof value === "string" && value.trim() ? value.trim() : null
17}
18
19function pick(table, key, fallback) {
20 return Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(table, key) ? table[key] : fallback
21}
22
23// Only link to real http(s) URLs.
24function link(url, cta) {
25 return typeof url === "string" && /^https?:\/\//.test(url) ? [{ cta, url }] : []
26}
27
28function handleRequest(request) {
29 const body = request.body && typeof request.body === "object" ? request.body : {}
30 const member = body.member?.current
31 const previous = body.member?.previous
32
33 // Guard: only new members. Newer Ghost versions name the event in the body; older ones
34 // don't, and a new member is the only member payload with an empty "previous".
35 const added = body.event
36 ? body.event === "member.added"
37 : previous && typeof previous === "object" && Object.keys(previous).length === 0
38 if (!added || !member || typeof member !== "object" || !member.email) {
39 console.log(`Ignoring Ghost "${body.event ?? "unknown"}" event`)
40 return null
41 }
42
43 const name = text(member.name)
44 const email = text(member.email)
45 const who = name && email ? `${name} (${email})` : name || email
46 const paid = member.status === "paid"
47 const tier = Array.isArray(member.tiers) ? text(member.tiers[0]?.name) : null
48 // Attribution isn't documented for webhooks; use it when it's there.
49 const source = text(member.attribution?.referrer_source)
50 // ?site=https://yoursite.com adds a button to the member in Ghost Admin.
51 const site = text(request.query?.site)?.replace(/\/+$/, "")
52
53 return {
54 title: pick(TITLES, member.status, TITLES.free),
55 message: `${who} signed up` + (tier && member.status !== "free" ? ` · ${tier}` : "") + (source ? ` · via ${source}` : ""),
56 topic: "Ghost",
57 priority: paid ? 0 : -1, // Normal for a paying member, Low for a free signup
58 ...(paid ? { sound: "cashregister" } : {}),
59 buttons: site && member.id ? link(`${site}/ghost/#/members/${member.id}`, "View member") : [],
60 }
61}
The Ghost member.added webhook
This is what Ghost sends to your URL for member added. It is a sample, trimmed to the fields recipes use.
member.added · sample.json
1{
2 "event": "member.added",
3 "member": {
4 "current": {
5 "id": "623199bfe8bc4d3097caefe0",
6 "name": "Jamie",
7 "note": null,
8 "uuid": "4fa3e4df-85d5-44bd-b0bf-d504bbe22060",
10 "tiers": [],
11 "comped": false,
12 "labels": [],
13 "status": "free",
14 "created_at": "2026-09-29T08:03:11.000Z",
15 "subscribed": true,
16 "updated_at": "2026-09-29T08:03:11.000Z",
17 "email_count": 0,
18 "geolocation": null,
19 "newsletters": [
20 {
21 "id": "62750bff2b868a34f814af08",
22 "name": "My Ghost Site",
23 "status": "active",
24 "description": null
25 }
26 ],
27 "avatar_image": null,
28 "last_seen_at": null,
29 "subscriptions": [],
30 "email_open_rate": null,
31 "email_opened_count": 0
32 },
33 "previous": []
34 }
35}
Ghost new member notifications: questions
Does this work on iPhone and Android?
Yes. Install the JustPush app from the App Store or Google Play and sign in. Every phone signed in to your account gets the notification.
Do I need to write code?
No. Install the recipe in Studio, paste your webhook URL into Ghost and you are done. The code is there if you want to change the text, the sound or the buttons.
Can I change what the notification says?
Yes. After install the recipe's code is yours. Edit it in Studio and test it against the sample payload before you save.
What does it cost?
JustPush is free for 30 days. After that it's $19.99 a year, or $39.99 once. There is no extra charge for recipes.
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