Use Case

Customer service with SMS API

Woman receives text from customer service
About

Increase customer satisfaction via SMS

SMS text messages are a critical part of the customer experience. However, if your text messages are not properly integrated with your customer support tools and phone numbers, it can hurt overall customer satisfaction. Our award-winning Messaging API allows you to easily integrate SMS into your customer experience.

Benefits

Developer-friendly, scalable SMS API

Among SMS API providers, Telnyx consistently wins awards for its results and ease-of-use. We take care of the details as you scale, so you don’t have to.

#1

Ranked API for Results and Ease of Use

Reduce costs without reducing results

Through our commitment to value through optimization, our platform and team ensure you get a great deal without sacrificing performance.

30%

Typical savings on messaging costs

How It Works
  1. 1

    Acquire SMS-ready phone number

    Get Telnyx phone numbers from the Mission Control Portal or Numbers API. You can choose from long code, short code, toll-free or international numbers. With hosted SMS or FastPort, you can also bring your own numbers onto our platform.

  2. 2

    Connect customer service SMS application

    Connect your application to the Telnyx Messaging API. Send or receive any type of text or MMS messages via our Messaging API from any phone number that you purchased or ported.

  3. 3

    Receive and reply to messages

    Receive messages into your application via the API. Respond via the Telnyx Messaging API directly or transition to a voice call using the Telnyx SIP or Voice APIs.

  4. 4

    Optimize and scale you customer support

    Review reports and detailed error messages. If you have any issues, troubleshoot using our award-winning documentation or support team (at no extra charge).

Products

Popular Telnyx offerings for SMS / MMS customer service

Resources
  • Icon Resources Coding Tutorial

    Message sending tutorial

    Learn how to send an account notification message programmatically using the Telnyx Messaging API.

  • Icon Resources Article

    Hosted SMS for Customer Support

    Read how to set up messaging for existing customer service numbers with Telnyx Hosted SMS.

Ready to upgrade your customer support?
FAQ

This depends on the specific content of the message and the country you're in. In general, we recommend some kind of opt-in or guidance that a customer may be contacted via SMS before sending them customer support messages. We also recommend allowing customers to opt-out via texting a single stop-word—with Telnyx, this is built in automatically.