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If you need to facilitate once off, bulk text message dispatches, the FTP SMS Gateway API connection is ideal and offers very fast delivery. This
mobile message-enabling application is particularly excellent for batch processing from legacy systems where customers build up a text file based on existing
databases. The text file is then uploaded to Clickatell's FTP site for immediate sending.
Why developers choose Clickatell's FTP API Connection to mobile message-enable their applications:
The FTP SMS Gateway API connection is fast and secure:
Clickatell offers SSL encryption for both inbound and outbound text messages with the FTP API connection. Sending
bulk text messages is fast with this application as you just need to upload from the Clickatell FTP server and your
mobile messages are sent instantly.
With the Clickatell FTP API, it is also possible to set up priority queues (3 of them) for
delivery of text messages. And Clickatell allows you to delay message sending for up to 7 days at a time.
If for some reason there is delay in delivery, the FTP connection will automatically escalate text
messages, after a client specified time, to an alternative delivery gateway. Clickatell delivers mobile
text messages through more than 819 operators to over 222 countries.
With the Clickatell FTP API, there is automatic recording of text message delivery status in the history log file in your FTP folder.
All of Clickatell’s A2P text messaging solutions offer the following features:
- Almost immediate SMS functionality for any site or application.
- Clickatell’s mobile messaging API’s support text, Unicode, binary SMS, EMS and Flash.
- Our SMS Gateway API’s support extended length messages.
- Clickatell’s mobile messaging API products come with extensive documentation and script libraries, saving you precious development time.
- VCard and VCal converters are available at no charge for logo and ringtone conversions.
- Our SMS Gateway API’s have delivery acknowledgement features and customized sender ID options.
- Two-way text messaging is enabled for most of our products and we can offer this feature in through 574 Networks in 191 Countries.
- Automatic rerouting to an alternative delivery gateway if a message is delayed for a client specified period of time.
- Customer-specified priority level SMS delivery queues.
- SMS delivery delay of up to 7 days (excluding SMPP API).
- Customers can query network coverage as well as text message status for both inbound and outbound messages (push and pull).
Take the free trial
now of Clickatell's FTP API Connection, we offer you 10 message credits to test our award-winning SMS Gateway connections.
How to connect via FTP:
- Sign up for an FTP account and you will be given a username, password and api_id: keep these at hand!
- Log into your account, go to Manage My Products, and then into the FTP section, and set up your FTP login and password. (These are different from your Clickatell account login and password).
- Have the number you wish to send to ready in international format e.g. 448311234567.
- Prepare the message you want to send by creating a text file in this format:
api_id:xxxxx
user:xxxxx
password:xxxxx
to: 448311234567
text: This is my first ftp to SMS message
- Type ftp://ftpupload.clickatell.com into the address line of your web browser.
- When prompted, enter your FTP login and password. This will give you access to your FTP folder.
- Copy your text file into this folder. Your message will be sent immediately.
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