2-Way Messaging Service
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Reach your customers with 2-way SMS and WhatsApp messages
Instant messages are a great way to diversify and enhance communication. Our 2-way messaging service is a versatile, secure, and affordable messaging solution for sending and receiving SMS messages and WhatsApp messages in Finland and globally. With it, you get a quick answer from your customer to a question about, for example, an appointment, an opinion poll or an order.
If you only want to send messages, check out our 1-way messaging service.
2-way messaging service is one of the services included in SmartDialog. All services are managed through the same, easy-to-use user interface. You can choose one service or combine the ones them you need.
2-way messaging functionality
To send and receive messages, you can use the versatile and well-documented API interface, or you can send and receive messages manually via the web user interface. Messages and data content can be received from several different channels (SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Webhook) to the same service.
SMS features
- Sending and receiving text messages in Finland and abroad
- Selecting sender (short number or long code number, in 1-way also Alphanumeric)
- Reception of messages possible through several different channels for the same service
- Monitoring of message volume statistics (MT/MO)
- Message log export (csv) and delivery receipt (DLR) tracking
- Automatic reporting and invoicing every month
- Detailed message volume reporting, by service
- Transmission of MT messages from the company to the end user and transmission of MO messages from the end user to the company
- Control of MO messages to different URLs based on a keyword
- Character sets: GSM 03.38 and Unicode
- 2-way SMS interfaces: - REST (http and https) - SMTP, SMPP
- Comprehensive API interface descriptions: https://openapi.arena.fi/
- Mail-to-SMS: sending e-mail as a text message via the SMTP interface
- SMS-to-Mail: forwarding of text messages to e-mail
- SMS-to-Webhook: forwarding an incoming message to a Webhook address and searching for a return message from the Webhook addres
- Message delivery acknowledgments (DLR) and MT/MO message error tracking
- Configuration of service settings and messaging accounts, possibility of address and message restrictions
- Management of price categories of keywords and services
- Management of contact groups for both sending and receiving messages
- Integration with numerous back-end systems: Microsoft, Salesforce, HubSpot, Liana
- Web interface with comprehensive features: https://app.smartdialog.ai
- Good scalability for large message volumes
- Strong information security and processing of personal data
- Token-based OAuth or long-term key-based authentication
- Multi-level data encryption: access rights, user roles, hiding contents from view
- For Enterprise customers, it is possible to completely protect data with encryption
- Customer support and 24/7 technical on-call
WhatsApp features
- 1- and 2-way WhatsApp interfaces, through which reception in Finland and abroad
- Forwarding WhatsApp messages from the end user to the company
- Company-dedicated WhatsApp number is used for receiving and sending messages
- Implementation of WhatsApp number through Arena Interactive
- Creating WhatsApp message templates and using them in sending messages
- Attaching files such as images, audio, videos to WhatsApp message templates
- Checking the Opt-in permits issued by the recipients
- Fallback delivery of WhatsApp messages: possible to replace WhatsApp sending via SMS
Chat features
- Enterprise customers have the opportunity to create smart conversation dialogues in their own system
- Chat maintenance: Sending, receiving and responding to received messages with simultaneous chat threads
- Conversations either via SMS or WhatsApp
- API Interface Modern Gateway OpenAPI: https://openapi.arena.fi/
Try SmartDialog 1-way SMS messaging API for free
Restrictions:
- The duration of the trial period is 30 days
- Maximum 50 messages
- Allowed to send to own phone number