Today's cutting-edge
Mobile and Cellular Technology has changed the way we live and
work.
If you want
to market or promote something
to mobile users, manage mobile communications
to members of a group or organization,
or get cell phone users to access
your mobile application or service — then, a shortcode
will help you for sure.
Short codes, are special telephone numbers, significantly shorter
than full telephone numbers, which can also be used to address
SMS messages from mobile phones. Shortcodes are usually 5 digits
(e.g. 56767) long, but can be customised to 7 (e.g. 5676771) depending
on the clients requirement. They are designed to be shorter to
read out and easier to remember than normal telephone numbers.
Short codes are widely used for value-added services such as television
voting, ordering ringtones, charity donations and mobile services.
Messages sent to short code numbers are generally billed at a
higher rate than a standard SMS.
Advantages of Short Code Service:
- Easy reach and remembrance:
- Hassle-free Always-Up SMS Service:
- Wider and known Brand Equity
Types of Short Code:
There are two kinds of short codes, shared and dedicated. Dedicated
short codes are dedicated for one customer
| Shared (56767) |
Dedicated (56767xx) |
| Shared ShortCode is used by many Brands |
Dedicated Shortcode becomes unique Identity of Brand |
| The customer has to type
Brand Name & then the service(Ex:
ICICIBANK IBAL to 6767) |
More user friendly as Customers need to only type the service without Brand name(Ex:
IBAL to 676766 for balance enquiry of ICICI Bank) |
| Cost increases with every keyword |
Unlimited keywords can be configured |
| Keyword availability may be restricted in case some other
Brand is already used same keyword. |
Keyword availability is not restricted |
Message should always begin with Keyword; incase of mistake
in typing the message will not be captured.
|
Any message can be captured even if not prefixed with Keyword(Ex:
I need to know where can i drop cheque in city name XXXX) |
Features
for Dedicated & Shared Shortcodes
- Auto Welcome Message
(FREE)
- Web Based Control Panel
- Customised Welcome Message
- Unlimited Sub Keywords
- Real Time Web Based Reporting
- Email Forwarding
- SMS Forwarding (1 SMS credit will be
charged)
Other Features of Short Code Service
Typical Application Industries: Content Providers, Educational
Institutions, Businesses/ Industries/ Consumer Goods Companies,
Co-operative Banks, Credit Societies, Government Organisations
etc
- Content Providers - SMS,
Jokes, Quotes, Stock Market Tips,
Commodity Tips, Tea Market Reports, Jewelers, Portal Websites
- Educational Institutions
- Exam Results Announcement, Quiz
Contests, Entry Forms
- Businesses/ Industries/
Consumer Goods Companies - Lead
Generation, Dealership Enquiries, Product
Support, Product Promotion,
Online Distribution Channel Ordering,
Account Statements (Balance,
last 5 transactions), Product
Information etc.
SMS Service Response
Mechanism:
The SMS Short Code and Long Code
Service avails Auto Response, URL Posting Options added with SMS
Alert, E-mail alerts. Auto Response: Depending on nature of Service
and ConteSnowebs being offered, you could set Auto Response -
SMS Message that should be sent back to User sending Message on
requested Service,
Post to Web URL (URL FORWARDING):
The Post to Web URL is one of most
Powerful and easy to configure facility. Using this facilty,
you could Configure a Website URL where the sent message should
be posted. Whenever a User sends SMS to the requested Service,
the message gets posted to configured URL with 'MSG' as sent
message field and 'MSISDN' as Message Sender Mobile Phone Number
along with additionaly configurable Optional fields like SHORTCODE,
Operator, Area Code, Service Code etc.. Thus we could easily
integrate our website data to this Messaging using any of our
Web Scripting/ Programming languages like ASP.NET, ASP, PHP,
JSP etc.
SMS Alert, E-mail Alert:
You can also configure SMS Alert with
predefined message(s) and/ or E-mail alert to receive Sender
Number whenever someone is sending messages to your Service.
This enables you to speed up your communication.
Caller History:
You could view all SMS Messages, sender
information along with date, time coming to your Service through
our Web-based Login system. Thus you could take feedbacks, get
in touch with senders based on type of service.
