diff --git a/test/api/v3/unit/models/user.test.js b/test/api/v3/unit/models/user.test.js
index f9651c9224..1c2b55ce1c 100644
--- a/test/api/v3/unit/models/user.test.js
+++ b/test/api/v3/unit/models/user.test.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { model as User } from '../../../../../website/server/models/user';
 import common from '../../../../../website/common';
+import Bluebird from 'bluebird';
 
 describe('User Model', () => {
   it('keeps user._tmp when calling .toJSON', () => {
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ describe('User Model', () => {
   });
 
   context('notifications', () => {
-    it('can add notifications with data', () => {
+    it('can add notifications without data', () => {
       let user = new User();
 
       user.addNotification('CRON');
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ describe('User Model', () => {
       expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].data).to.eql({});
     });
 
-    it('can add notifications without data', () => {
+    it('can add notifications with data', () => {
       let user = new User();
 
       user.addNotification('CRON', {field: 1});
@@ -71,5 +72,77 @@ describe('User Model', () => {
       expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].type).to.equal('CRON');
       expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].data).to.eql({field: 1});
     });
+
+    context('static push method', () => {
+      it('adds notifications for a single member via static method', async() => {
+        let user = new User();
+        await user.save();
+
+        await User.pushNotification({_id: user._id}, 'CRON');
+
+        user = await User.findOne({_id: user._id}).exec();
+
+        let userToJSON = user.toJSON();
+        expect(user.notifications.length).to.equal(1);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0]).to.have.all.keys(['data', 'id', 'type']);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].type).to.equal('CRON');
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].data).to.eql({});
+      });
+
+      it('validates notifications via static method', async() => {
+        let user = new User();
+        await user.save();
+
+        expect(User.pushNotification({_id: user._id}, 'BAD_TYPE')).to.eventually.be.rejected;
+      });
+
+      it('adds notifications without data for all given users via static method', async() => {
+        let user = new User();
+        let otherUser = new User();
+        await Bluebird.all([user.save(), otherUser.save()]);
+
+        await User.pushNotification({_id: {$in: [user._id, otherUser._id]}}, 'CRON');
+
+        user = await User.findOne({_id: user._id}).exec();
+
+        let userToJSON = user.toJSON();
+        expect(user.notifications.length).to.equal(1);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0]).to.have.all.keys(['data', 'id', 'type']);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].type).to.equal('CRON');
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].data).to.eql({});
+
+        user = await User.findOne({_id: otherUser._id}).exec();
+
+        userToJSON = user.toJSON();
+        expect(user.notifications.length).to.equal(1);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0]).to.have.all.keys(['data', 'id', 'type']);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].type).to.equal('CRON');
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].data).to.eql({});
+      });
+
+      it('adds notifications with data for all given users via static method', async() => {
+        let user = new User();
+        let otherUser = new User();
+        await Bluebird.all([user.save(), otherUser.save()]);
+
+        await User.pushNotification({_id: {$in: [user._id, otherUser._id]}}, 'CRON', {field: 1});
+
+        user = await User.findOne({_id: user._id}).exec();
+
+        let userToJSON = user.toJSON();
+        expect(user.notifications.length).to.equal(1);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0]).to.have.all.keys(['data', 'id', 'type']);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].type).to.equal('CRON');
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].data).to.eql({field: 1});
+
+        user = await User.findOne({_id: otherUser._id}).exec();
+
+        userToJSON = user.toJSON();
+        expect(user.notifications.length).to.equal(1);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0]).to.have.all.keys(['data', 'id', 'type']);
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].type).to.equal('CRON');
+        expect(userToJSON.notifications[0].data).to.eql({field: 1});
+      });
+    });
   });
 });
diff --git a/website/server/models/user/methods.js b/website/server/models/user/methods.js
index e3132af324..517be30c0c 100644
--- a/website/server/models/user/methods.js
+++ b/website/server/models/user/methods.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {
   TAVERN_ID,
 } from '../group';
 import { defaults } from 'lodash';
-
+import { model as UserNotification } from '../userNotification';
 import schema from './schema';
 
 schema.methods.isSubscribed = function isSubscribed () {
@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ schema.methods.sendMessage = async function sendMessage (userToReceiveMessage, o
   await Bluebird.all(promises);
 };
 
+/**
+ * Creates a notification based on the input parameters and adds it to the local user notifications array.
+ * This does not save the notification to the database or interact with the database in any way.
+ *
+ * @param  type  The type of notification to add to the user. Possible values are defined in the UserNotificaiton Schema
+ * @param  data  The data to add to the notification
+ */
 schema.methods.addNotification = function addUserNotification (type, data = {}) {
   this.notifications.push({
     type,
@@ -53,6 +60,25 @@ schema.methods.addNotification = function addUserNotification (type, data = {})
   });
 };
 
+/**
+ * Creates a notification based on the type and data input parameters and saves that new notification
+ * to the database directly using an update statement. The local copy of these users are not updated by
+ * this operation. Use this function when you want to add a notification to a user(s), but do not have
+ * the user document(s) opened.
+ *
+ * @param  query A Mongoose query defining the users to add the notification to.
+ * @param  type  The type of notification to add to the user. Possible values are defined in the UserNotificaiton Schema
+ * @param  data  The data to add to the notification
+ */
+schema.statics.pushNotification = async function pushNotification (query, type, data = {}) {
+  let newNotification = new UserNotification({type, data});
+  let validationResult = newNotification.validateSync();
+  if (validationResult) {
+    throw validationResult;
+  }
+  await this.update(query, {$push: {notifications: newNotification}}, {multi: true}).exec();
+};
+
 // Add stats.toNextLevel, stats.maxMP and stats.maxHealth
 // to a JSONified User stats object
 schema.methods.addComputedStatsToJSONObj = function addComputedStatsToUserJSONObj (statsObject) {