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Revision as of 14:23, 28 May 2009
With our service you can collect incoming SMS messages from your customers and have these messages forwarded directly to your application using a common HTTP-POST protocol. Here a several examples:
- Voting
- VoIP Call origination
- Customer support
- Sales reporting
- Instant Messaging
- Telemetry and many more
To receive text messages, senders need a number to which they can send them. There are two options for you to receive incoming messages. You can use a
- Shared short or long code or
- Dedicated VirtualSMS or dedicated short code
Please contact us to discuss which option would work the best in your situation.
Incoming SMS messages are first directed into your account (Inbox). From there, these messages can be forwarded to you using email or HTTP-POST. You can also collect them by using standard POP3 protocol. See below links for details on using HTTP-POST:
Alternatively, you can leave messages on the server and then pick them up occasionally using standard POP3 client or protocol.
PLEASE NOTE - YOUR APPLICATION MUST IMPLEMENT HTTP-POST processing NOT HTTP-GET
