Send SMS with the Infobip SMS API: A Quick Start Guide
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 4:47 am
Rapidly integrate our SMS API into your applications and start sending messages to customers right away.
Reach your customers whenever you want, wherever they are, in multiple markets across the world. Our intuitive, low code SMS API integration is all you need to start sending messages to customers today.
When you have questions, our API developer hub has detailed examples and tutorials to help you get started and answer your questions.
Let’s dig into the Infobip SMS API with a few examples and code samples. First, the basics of SMS. SMS standards are simple:
The Infobip SMS API handles different mobile network operators (MNOs) and country-specific requirements so you only have to worry about writing code. Here is the most basic example of sending a message through the API—all eight lines of it:
Sending To Multiple Recipients
Using the API to send multiple text messages (or sending to messages multiple recipients) isn’t much more complicated than sending a single message (see below):
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Sending Social Invites and App Links
The API allows you to integrate Social Invites and app sharing. The overseas chinese In australia data sample below would send the link and also allow you track the link through the Infobip Portal. Social Invites are powerful and easy ways to drive app downloads and user engagement.
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Fully-Featured Messages
The fully featured text messaging options built into the SMS API let you specify additional parameters that will make your campaigns more compelling—and easier to track for reporting and analysis.
Language Support
Customers want to see messages in their preferred alphabet, but the standard alphabet used for SMS doesn’t have every letter in the world. You can use Unicode characters, but doing that reduces how long your message can be. This means you may need to send two texts, doubling your costs. Infobip has two solutions to reduce costs and improve customer experience when using complex alphabets.
Transliteration automatically converts Unicode to the regular character set. Your developer simply sets a parameter in the code to one of the supported alphabets (Turkish, Greek, Cyrillic, Serbian Cyrillic, Central European, or Baltic) and the API handles the rest.
National Language Identifier is an encoding technology that accomplishes a similar goal as transliteration for languages that require many diacritical marks. It too can be set as a parameter. Our API currently supports Turkish, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Flash SMS
A bank detects possible fraud. An airline makes a last-minute gate change. When your customers need to see urgent messages, Flash SMS messages skip their mobile inbox and appear right on your customer’s home screen. Just one additional line of code enables Flash SMS messages in your application through the SMS API.
Perfect Timing For Your Messages
To help you send your messages when they’ll be most effective at reaching your customers, our text messaging API includes two timing parameters:
“sendAt” lets you schedule messages to be delivered at a set time “Validity Period” lets you send messages within a predetermined window of time
You don’t need to worry about whether to use twelve or twenty-four-hour time or not—Infobip’s API documentation shows the time formats required.
Reach your customers whenever you want, wherever they are, in multiple markets across the world. Our intuitive, low code SMS API integration is all you need to start sending messages to customers today.
When you have questions, our API developer hub has detailed examples and tutorials to help you get started and answer your questions.
Let’s dig into the Infobip SMS API with a few examples and code samples. First, the basics of SMS. SMS standards are simple:
The Infobip SMS API handles different mobile network operators (MNOs) and country-specific requirements so you only have to worry about writing code. Here is the most basic example of sending a message through the API—all eight lines of it:
Sending To Multiple Recipients
Using the API to send multiple text messages (or sending to messages multiple recipients) isn’t much more complicated than sending a single message (see below):
JSON
Sending Social Invites and App Links
The API allows you to integrate Social Invites and app sharing. The overseas chinese In australia data sample below would send the link and also allow you track the link through the Infobip Portal. Social Invites are powerful and easy ways to drive app downloads and user engagement.
JSON
Fully-Featured Messages
The fully featured text messaging options built into the SMS API let you specify additional parameters that will make your campaigns more compelling—and easier to track for reporting and analysis.
Language Support
Customers want to see messages in their preferred alphabet, but the standard alphabet used for SMS doesn’t have every letter in the world. You can use Unicode characters, but doing that reduces how long your message can be. This means you may need to send two texts, doubling your costs. Infobip has two solutions to reduce costs and improve customer experience when using complex alphabets.
Transliteration automatically converts Unicode to the regular character set. Your developer simply sets a parameter in the code to one of the supported alphabets (Turkish, Greek, Cyrillic, Serbian Cyrillic, Central European, or Baltic) and the API handles the rest.
National Language Identifier is an encoding technology that accomplishes a similar goal as transliteration for languages that require many diacritical marks. It too can be set as a parameter. Our API currently supports Turkish, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Flash SMS
A bank detects possible fraud. An airline makes a last-minute gate change. When your customers need to see urgent messages, Flash SMS messages skip their mobile inbox and appear right on your customer’s home screen. Just one additional line of code enables Flash SMS messages in your application through the SMS API.
Perfect Timing For Your Messages
To help you send your messages when they’ll be most effective at reaching your customers, our text messaging API includes two timing parameters:
“sendAt” lets you schedule messages to be delivered at a set time “Validity Period” lets you send messages within a predetermined window of time
You don’t need to worry about whether to use twelve or twenty-four-hour time or not—Infobip’s API documentation shows the time formats required.