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About excessive SMS usage and how to deal with it

Many people use their mobile phones to send SMSs to their contacts. Next to occasional SMSs to friends, family, and relatives, people may want to send large amounts of SMSs using their phone subscription to large amounts of contacts for business purposes. Doing so, they might receive a warning notification from their operator about excessive or abused usage of their SMS capability, with a risk of having all SMS traffic being blocked.

In this article, you will learn about fair SMS usage, typical phone subscription clauses, P2P and A2P SMS traffic, and possible solutions to lower the risk of seeing all your phone SMS traffic being blocked. We’ll also discover alternatives to legacy sim box solutions.

How to send or receive SMS via your applications

Implement the enco.io SMS API, enabling you to send a simple reminder, confirmation delivery, or to start an SMS conversation from your own applications.

Integrate conversational messaging into your CRM or ATS application

Integrating conversational messaging into your CRM or ATS applications is easier said than done. While sending out SMS campaigns can seem simple at first, actually starting a conversation is another matter entirely!

Customer interactions before and after a visit to your shop

Discover how to setup a conversational messaging in retail or e-commerce with #interact

The shopping experience doesn’t start or end at the doors of your store anymore. Your customers are online 24/7. They expect a consistent experience in any contact with your physical store, web shop, after-sales service and more. On top of that, for many shops, being reachable on the phone is already a challenge, as shop employees are attending in-store customers.

A simple SMS bot to check meeting room availability

Among all scarce resources on this planet, meeting rooms should definitely be considered one of them. Even if you have a room reservation system, it can be cumbersome to use whatever web site or application to check if a room is available right now, as you need it (open the laptop, wait for it to connect on the network, open Outlook, check the meeting room status, etc). On top of this, a room may be flagged as booked in a reservation system while being actually free, as the people who booked it changed their plans (hello co-working spaces ?).

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SMS API is now available on EnCo Market !

It is finally here! THE API everyone was looking forward to, is now available on EnCo Market: SMS API! You want to offer a great reach to your outbound marketing campaign, need to send threshold based alerts or strengthen your security with two-factor authentication? Maybe you don’t know it yet but SMS API is exactly what you need!
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