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Assignment Strategy: How to Automate Contact Distribution & Load Balancing
How to Maximize Customer Service Potential with AI Agent
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How to Block Contacts and Manage Spam
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How to Transfer Contacts to the Next Shift Automatically
How to Optimize Agents’ Productivity in the Inbox Module
How to Write an Optimal AI Persona (Best Practices)
How to Write the Best Knowledge Sources for AI Agents
How to Align AI Conversations with Your Brand Voice
How to Draft Customer Replies with AI
How to Convert Image to Text Using AI
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How to Automate Lifecycle Tracking in Google Sheets
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How to Send CSAT to Customer and Save Data in Google Sheets or CRMs
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Broadcasts Use Cases
How to Send a Simple Broadcast
How to Start a Workflow Based on Broadcast Response
How to Import to Broadcast via WhatsApp
How to Troubleshoot a Failed Broadcast
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Dialogflow Overview
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Table of Contents
SMS Overview
Short Messaging Service (SMS) is a text-based way of communicating that has been around for a decade or more. If you would like to use the respond.io platform for SMS messaging, you will need to create an account with one of our partners.
Once you have created an account and provisioned a phone number, you may connect it to the respond.io platform and interact with your contacts through SMS messages just like any other channel.
Supporting Partners
If you wish to connect SMS to the respond.io platform, please consider the following partners:
Channel Capabilities
The channel capabilities of SMS supporting partners are listed below:
Message Status Availability
The message status availability for different SMS channels is shown in the table below:
SMS Channel | Sent | Delivered | Read | Failed |
Twilio | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
MessageBird | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Vonage | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Supported File Types
The file types supported by different SMS channels and the maximum file size for each file type are shown in the table below:
SMS Channel | Image Size Limit (MBs) | Audio Size Limit (MBs) | Video Size Limit (MBs) |
Twilio | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
MessageBird | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Vonage | 2 | - | - |
Metadata Received by Channel
Different channels provide different sets of Contact's metadata to the respond.io platform. The list of Contact's data you’ll be able to obtain from different SMS channels is shown in the table below:
SMS Channel | Metadata Received by Channel |
Twilio | Phone number, City, State, Postal code, Country |
MessageBird | Phone number |
Vonage | Phone number |
Broadcasts
Respond.io’s supporting SMS partner channels have no restrictions on the content or number of messages businesses can send in a broadcast. Broadcast messages will be charged at the usual per-message rate.
- Learn how to deal with failed broadcast messages here.
Rate Limits
A rate limit is the number of API calls an app or user can make within a given time period defined by the channel. Learn more about the rate limits of SMS channels below:
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