keywords This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/keywords/mykeyword Actions on the ShortCode keywords (see Short Code SMS Service). GET method – get the availability of a given keyword GET method Test whether the specified keyword is available on our ShortCode number. … Continue reading
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REST SMS Gateway API – keywords resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
REST SMS Gateway API – sms resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
sms This resource deals with sending SMS to customer. This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/sms Actions relating to sending SMS messages. POST method - Used to send an SMS message. POST POST method Attempts to send the specified SMS message. Example … Continue reading
REST SMS Gateway API – deliveryReport resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
deliveryReport This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/deliveryReport Actions on a specific delivery report. GET method - Gets the contents of a delivery report An individual delivery report shows the current known status of all messages sent on a given day, or for … Continue reading
REST SMS Gateway API – deliveryReports resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
deliveryReports This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/deliveryReports Actions on the list of available delivery reports. GET method - Gets a list of available delivery report names The REST API resource deliveryReports (note the trailing ‘s’) performs actions on the list of available … Continue reading
REST SMS Gateway API – credits resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
credits This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/credits Actions on the account credits. GET method – get the number of credits currently available on your account POST method - transfer credits between accounts GET GET method Get the number of credits … Continue reading
RESTful Web Services SMS Gateway API Overview
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical, Web to SMS Tags: All SMS Gateway Documentation, gateway, integrate, RESTful, sms, sms api, web service, Web to SMS
In addition to our simple HTTP SMS Gateway API, explained here, we also provide a ‘RESTful’ SMS API to give you access to information about your SMS marketing account (don’t have one? Create a free account). If you are familiar with REST APIs, you may wish to jump to our … Continue reading
REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: Business SMS, Documentation, Technical Tags: All SMS Gateway Documentation, RESTful, sms api, specification
For an overview of what REST and our RESTful SMS API is all about you may like to read our RESTful SMS API Overview. If you prefer you can use the simple SMS gateway, rather than our RESTful implementation. To get straight into the details, jump to: Quick Start Error codes You … Continue reading
SMS Gateway Reliability – The Chain is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Documentation, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice, SMS Providers, Technical, Text Messaging Software Tags: bulk sms reliability, most reliable bulk sms service, reliable sms gateway, sms gateway reliability
Most bulk SMS providers , (including ourselves) will take great pains to point out the merits of direct connections to the UK Networks, and a direct connection is indeed essential for a first class, reliable sms service. But that is only part of the story. Just as crucial to reliability are … Continue reading
System Update – Upload your mobile numbers straight from Microsoft Excel
Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Documentation, System FAQs, Technical, Text Messaging Software Tags: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, sms marketing, upload numbers to a group, upload sms numbers
The development team at Text Marketer have had a busy few months and the latest system improvement has now been launched. Following customer research, we have now built into all accounts the ability to upload numbers straight from Excel, without having to save the database as a .csv or .txt … Continue reading
Top Tips for Writing Successful SMS Marketing Messages
Posted on August 18th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Campaign Articles, Documentation, SMS Advertising, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice, Text Messaging Software Tags: example text marketing message, template bulk sms messages, template example sms messages
Customers often ask us whether we have any example sms messages that they can use as a templates for their bulk sms marketing campaigns. Now obviously each company needs to tailor the text message specifically for their own target market. There are however a few golden rules that can help … Continue reading
.NET Examples
Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Nick.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation, Technical
Example of a .NET Bulk SMS Gateway / API integration For more information regarding the bulk sending API click here. A simple example for sending SMS via a .NET method Here’s a stand-alone .Net method: private static string SendSms(string p_userName, string p_password, string p_orig, string p_number, string p_message, bool p_respondInXml) … Continue reading
Supported and Unsupported characters in Text Messages – GSM Character Set
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, All SMS Gateway Documentation, Bulk SMS, Documentation Tags: bulk, characters, gsm, sms, supported, unsupported
When constructing the message for your SMS Marketing campaign you should be aware that not all characters are supported by the GSM networks. They have a specific character set that they work to. It shouldn’t be a mjor concern to 99%+ of people as almost all common characters are supported. … Continue reading
Concatenation and Bulk sending
Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Nick.
Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, Campaign Articles, Documentation
Feature Upgrade API customers can now send messages up to 612 characters long. If you exceed 160 characters you automatically covert to concatenation sending, this has the following connotations. Each message consists of a 153 character ‘chunk’ (not 160 chars) the extra characters are used to glue the messages together. … Continue reading
Bulk SMS API ASP Help
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Nick.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation
Using standard ASP libraries <% url=”http://www.textmarketer.biz/gateway/?username=#&password=#&number=#&message=msg&orig=nameORnumber&option=xml” Set objXMLDoc = CreateObject(“Microsoft.XMLDOM”) objXMLDoc.async = False objXMLDoc.load(url) status = objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(“//response”).getAttribute(“status”) if status = “success” then response.write “Status ” & status & ” Credits ” & objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(“//response/credits”).Text else response.write “Status ” & status & ” Reason ” & objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(“//response/reason”).Text end if %> Put that … Continue reading
The SMS Gateway
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Documentation Tags: All SMS Gateway Documentation, bulk, message, text