The XML SMS Gateway API is very simple to integrate particularly with legacy systems and allows easy communication between two applications via XML. The XML is submitted via and HTTP post. Although two-way messaging is not a feature of the XML API, you can use our other connections such as HTTP, FTP or SMPP to receive your inbound SMS text messages.
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Advantages of our XML SMS Gateway API
- XML is language independent.
- It is ideal for batch sending.
- It is enabled for Token Pay such as 'spend a voucher' campaigns.
- For developers' familiar with XML, we offer this interface with its own set of DTD's.
Clickatell's XML SMS Gateway API allows client control and monitoring.
- The HTTP API has facilities for coverage queries as well text message status (pull only).
- Clients can make balance enquiries as well as being able to set a maximum credit charge.
- Clients can, with Clickatell's HTTP API, send stop or delete SMS messages if they are making used of the delivery delay feature.
- Clients can specify features that they need.
- Clients can choose SSL encryption for outbound messages.
All of Clickatell's A2P mobile messaging solutions offer the following features:
- Almost immediate SMS text messaging functionality for any site or application.
- Clickatell's mobile messaging API's support text, Unicode, binary SMS, EMS and Flash messaging.
- 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 through 819 networks in 222 countries.
- Automatic rerouting to an alternative delivery gateway i f 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 XML SMS Gateway API Connection , with 10 free message
credits to send pre-populated text messages and see how easy it is to connect to our SMS
Gateway.
How to connect using XML:
- Sign up for an XML account by and you will be given a username, password and api_id: keep these at hand.
- Once you have registered and been activated you will receive 10 free credits with which to test our service.
- Have the number you wish to send to ready in international format e.g. 448311234567.
- Open your browser (e.g. Internet Explorer), and type in your info in the address bar in the following sequence:
http://api.clickatell.com/xml/xml?data=<clickAPI><sendMsg><api_id>1</api_id>
s<user>demo</user><password>demo</password><to>448311234567</to><text>Meet me outside</text><from>me</from></sendMsg></clickAPI>
- Press 'Enter' on your keyboard and your message will be sent.
Sign up for XML
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