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“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
“Dear Bidvest team, Just wanted to take the time to say a very special thank you to TEAM BIDVEST. Everyone at OUP thanks all the people involved over the last few weeks and trust me, everyone in our organization now knows how much we can depend on Bidvest and we're all truly grateful for your efforts. Your responsiveness to our changing needs and requests is truly appreciated”
- Oxford
Explore Bidvest Data’s robust email failover solutions designed for the financial industry in South Africa, ensuring uninterrupted communications, compliance, and improved client trust.
In the financial industry, seamless communication is vital for maintaining client relationships, compliance, and operational integrity. Email failover solutions are essential to ensure that banking institutions, insurance companies, and investment firms maintain uninterrupted email services, even during outages. This comprehensive guide explores the importance of email reliability in the financial sector, outlines the critical components of email failover systems, and provides operational insights tailored for South African enterprises.
Email communication is a lifeline for financial institutions that must deliver sensitive information quickly and securely. An email failover solution ensures that when the primary email server goes down, alternative systems can take over without delay. For sectors that handle sensitive financial data, such redundancy is not merely advantageous; it is imperative for maintaining compliance with industry regulations and upholding customer trust.
To ensure effectiveness, an email failover solution must integrate several components tailored to the specific needs of financial institutions:
For financial organizations, implementing email failover requires careful planning and adherence to best practices to maximize effectiveness:
South African financial institutions face unique challenges around compliance and security that must be considered when selecting email failover solutions. Leveraging local providers, like Bidvest Data, allows for tailored solutions that can adapt to local regulations, such as the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
Our email failover solutions offer the following:
Implementing reliable email failover solutions not only protects communication lines during operational disturbances but also has substantial positive business implications:
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“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
“Dear Bidvest team, Just wanted to take the time to say a very special thank you to TEAM BIDVEST. Everyone at OUP thanks all the people involved over the last few weeks and trust me, everyone in our organization now knows how much we can depend on Bidvest and we're all truly grateful for your efforts. Your responsiveness to our changing needs and requests is truly appreciated”
- Oxford
Discover our comprehensive solution features designed to transform your business communication experience

We implement your designs, images and artwork for optimal delivery. We measure and manage spam ratings, and we monitor and manage blacklisting and reputation of sending domains.

PDF documents, HTML content, videos and animations can be hosted on our Zero Rated Data domains. Reverse billing of data on these domains ensure access for end users to content at no cost. Bidvest Data offers this service on all South African and Namibian mobile networks.

Bidvest Data offers custom-built, screen adaptive, HTML environments, enabling features like animation, rotating GIFs, and interactive buttons in the email body and built into the unique microsite.

Our service includes automated large file batch sending through sFTP data transfer. The data can selectively drive template messaging. Near real-time email sending is facilitated through our API, using templates or dynamic text.

Where another channel in our omnichannel platform is unsuccessful in delivering a message, we can automatically fail over to email. Priority and fail over channels are configurable.

Bidvest Data provides near-real-time and periodic aggregate batched reporting on consumer engagement, including link tracking, email delivery status, and customized reports on microsite access.