In recent years,
sending short messages to mobiles (SMS) has become
an essential requirement for the development of platforms for my customers.
Given the
low cost of SMS, they have became
an extremely popular communication method at a professional level for various applications:
- Advertising brands, products or services;
- Birthday, anniversary, or other congratulations;
- Payment warnings;
- Notes;
- Notification of product launchings or orders;
- Notification of repairs;
- Electronic voting;
- Electronic search (e.g.: dictionaries, research, etc.);
- Information broadcast;
- Attendance confirmations;
- Order confirmations;
- Etc.
Thus, progressively, I started developing a
gateway for sending SMS through the – theoretically - best known and the most diverse world operators.
In order to keep up with the
increasing customer demands in connection with
quality and state of the art features<, this gateway became richer and richer in functionalities, supporting, among others:
- Automatic resending of messages in case of failure;
- Detailed reports about the messages sent;
- Notification via email in case of failure or delay in deliveries;
- Selecting the best routing operator / low cost operator;
- Etc.
However, I used to have a customer who would often complain about certain problems in the delivery of messages – certain mobile phones that would not get the message - without an apparent reason or, in other situations, mobiles in portability that would not receive any messages.
After many, many hours of tests, attempts and experiments, the best solution I could come up with was to create a
direct interface linking to one of the 3 larger national mobile operators, leaving aside the use of foreign operators to guarantee a
better reliability in the delivery of messages.
Given the high amount of hours spent in this solution, the experience acquired on the way, and believing that a lot of people face the same problems with which I came across, I understood that the best way of monetising this solution would be to create a platform to be used by entities seeking a
highly reliable custom solution guaranteeing the
biggest success possible in the delivery of every message.
So, I came up with
www.professionalsms.com.
A
premium service that assures
quality message delivery at an
extremely competitive price, without demanding
neither royalty fees nor minimum amount of SMS sent. All this by means of a
personalized service.
With the possibility to send just 1 message or thousands of simultaneous SMSs, the user can choose to
send their messages through the web platform developed or
via his/her own business application through interfaces like HTTP, XML, etc.
Consulting a
detailed historical report and fill user’s account
through Paypal are just some of the additional features.
This platform is supported by a powerfull back office where we can control the whole site; users, payments control, approval / rejection of senders, administration of the contents of the site, etc.
Visit the site!
Regards.
LMG.