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Overview

  • Protocol: HTTP.
  • Use cases: A2P SMS termination, transactional and bulk messaging.
  • Authentication: Token.
  • IP security: Source IP whitelisting not required.
  • Host and port: contact support or your account manager.
  • Message concatenation: enabled by default. (limits message part to 153 for GSM-7 coded messages and 63 charchters for Unicode non GSM-7 bit coded messages due to SMS protocols. )

SMS Short URL API

  • The Short URL API allows you to programmatically trigger SMS messages that include a short URL generated by Message-Deck.
  • When the recipient clicks the short URL, they are redirected to the tracking link provided by you.

Key Features

  • 📩 Send SMS messages via API
  • 🔗 Automatically generate short URLs
  • 📊 Click tracking and delivery reports
  • 🛡️ Optional blocking of crawlers and non-mobile devices
  • 🌍 Geo, pricing, and MCC/MNC enrichment

Notes

  • Message text should be URL-encoded to support non-Latin languages
  • Ensure {link} is included in the message body
  • This API sends live SMS messages and will be billed accordingly
  • 30 Charachters are reserved to replace your {link} placeholder within the message body with a short URL.