When only an app is not enough: Why many internet services rely on SMS

No matter whether it’s online delivery services, car sharing providers or hotel booking platforms – in order to notify customers and partners dependably and without delay, many companies rely on SMS services from the cloud. Although most of these web services are equipped with their own apps, an increasing number of providers are additionally banking on notifying users via SMS. The benefits are perfectly obvious.

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Delivery tracking via SMS: How SMS services facilitate last mile delivery

Online rather than window shopping: With the growing importance of e-commerce and online shopping, the demands on logistics companies are also on the rise. At the end of the day, the ordered goods have somehow to be transported from the distribution center to their final destination. With the assistance of Retarus SMS Services, delivery processes become substantially more convenient and transparent.

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Cloud SMS API: Ready for the internet economy with REST

An increasing number of companies are sending huge amounts of short messages with the aid of cloud services, reliably and quickly to mobile networks around the world. While many companies have thus far preferred to use SOAP interfaces, the trend in the Internet Economy has for some time now been clearly towards REST, short for Representational State Transfer. The advantage: Especially in the internet environment most of the infrastructure required for REST is already available.

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The special case of special characters: How to prevent losing half the available SMS characters

160 is the number of characters that fit into a regular SMS. The established SMS standard is employed in the autometed transmission of messages in M2M communications and Industry 4.0: When these messages are sent internationally, it can very quickly happen that a message is restricted to only 70 characters due to the usage of special characters. The solution for this dilemma is called “Smart Replacement”.

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M2M and A2P SMS: Business communication between applications, people and machines

Messenger services aside: communicating via SMS continues to enjoy a very high degree of popularity in everyday business. As practical as SMS may be as a notification channel, like any other means of communication it only really develops its full potential when used as a tool for dialogue. When using Retarus SMS to Applications, for instance, incoming short messages are automatically pushed into the corresponding business application.

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