Social Networking Solutions

Clickatell has developed a range of SMS solutions that are easy to use and easy to integrate with your existing website, application or programme. These award-winning connections all come with the Clickatell promise of delivery to more operators in more countries on more devices than any other company in the world!

Our SMS Gateway

Clickatell's SMS Gateway is a trusted and award-winning messaging platform that will ensure the reliable and near instantaneous delivery of SMS messages to and from your social networking site or application.

The Gateway can deliver messages to more than 819 operators in more than 222 countries including all local South African operators. It is enabled for two-way messaging so that your social network users can respond and interact with you.

Our developer-friendly Application Programming Interface API' s connect through this stable Gateway from your SMS-enabled site or application. The API products are simple and fast and very easy to integrate with your existing programmes, offering you a choice of connection options suited to a wide spectrum of usage.

The Clickatell SMS Gateway APIs

Clickatell's HTTP/S API Connection: This simple, versatile web-based connection has batch sending capabilities and offers the additional security feature of SSL encryption for both inbound and outbound messages. It can also overcome common firewall challenges.

Clickatell's SMPP API Connection: This API is a great choice for the fast sending of bulk messages (5 000 or more a month). The SMPP API is continuously connected to the Clickatell SMS Gateway.

Clickatell's SMTP API Connection:If your social network needs to send SMS text messages via an email messaging system, the SMTP API is the best choice. This is the industry standard for high volume text messaging and particularly useful for notification alerts.

Clickatell's FTP API Connection: A very fast connection, the FTP API is ideal for once-off high volume message dispatches. Customers using text-based databases can upload text files to Clickatell's FTP site for sending.

Clickatell's XML API Connection:The XML API is language independent and simple to integrate. It assists in communication between applications and is enabled for Token Pay functionality.

Clickatell's SOAP Protocol: The SOAP Protocol API is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages using HTTP/HTTPS. Using the XML-based Web Services Description Language, SOAP forms a foundation layer of the web services protocol stack.

Clickatell's COM Object: The COM Object API enables connectivity from a Windows environment and allows developers to easily integrate SMS sending into their programmes.

Have a look at the SMS Gateway demo or discover more about our innovative API connections by signing up now for a free trial account and discover how it all works for yourself.

Radically improve your mobile social networking offering, by allowing users to...

• post and receive content on the go through SMS text messages to public streams.
• this includes video, photo's and compressed audio files.
• SMS their location to their social network (check-in) and be notified of the location of friends in the vicinity if their friends have also 'checked-in'.

• receive notification when posts to which they subscribe to have been updated.
• request and receive information on a venue or event through SMS.
• receive alerts re new mail or security updates.

• send email to SMS or voicemail to SMS their contacts.
• set up SMS polls with other users.
• send invites to other members via SMS.
• comment on a place or event by SMS.

• create a loyal and expanded customer base with mobile social networking.
• increase your income streams and site revenue with mobile social networking.
• expand your business to a national or global level with mobile social networking.

Don't get left behind as social networking moves forward rapidly into the mobile sphere, test-drive Clickatell's SMS Gateway connections today, you won't regret it.