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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 how integrated failover SMS works to ensure uninterrupted communication for your business. Learn about its importance, implementation, and industry use cases.
In today’s fast-paced business environment, maintaining reliable communication channels is critical for operational success. For businesses in South Africa, integrated failover SMS (Short Message Service) solutions ensure constant connectivity and uninterrupted communication. This comprehensive guide explores how integrated failover SMS functions, its significance for enterprises, and best practices for implementation, specifically within sectors such as financial services, healthcare, logistics, and government.
Integrated failover SMS is a robust communication strategy that enhances message delivery reliability by ensuring that when one channel of communication fails, another automatically takes over. This approach minimizes downtime, which is essential for maintaining operational efficiency, particularly for enterprises that depend heavily on timely communication.
Ensuring uninterrupted messaging capability is vital for businesses aiming to deliver seamless customer experiences and maintain internal communications. Here are key reasons why integrated failover SMS is crucial:
The operation of an integrated failover SMS system involves several steps:
Different industries leverage integrated failover SMS to enhance their communication strategies. Here are a few notable examples:
Banks utilize failover SMS for real-time notifications on transactions, thus ensuring clients stay informed and engaged despite potential system outages.
Hospitals implement this solution to send critical alerts and patient notifications, ensuring crucial information reaches patients and staff promptly.
When implementing integrated failover SMS, adherence to best practices significantly contributes to a successful deployment:
Integrated failover SMS is an essential solution for businesses looking to enhance their communication stability and efficiency. By implementing such systems, organizations can ensure that critical messages are delivered without interruption, maintaining operational excellence and building trust with clients and stakeholders alike.
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Bidvest Data sends on average more than 10 million personalized SMS/SV SMS messages per month, with daily peaks exceeding 2 million messages. This comprises mainly of transactional notifications and hosted transactional data.
The SMS channel delivers a secure, shortened personalized URL to the consumer, directing them to their unique microsite. All consumer activity can be tracked.
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.
Our service includes automated large file batch sending through sFTP data transfer. The data can selectively drive template messaging. Near real-time SMS 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 SMS. Priority and fail over channels are configurable.
Bidvest Data provides near-real-time and periodic aggregate batched reporting on consumer engagement, including link tracking, SMS and SV SMS delivery status, and customized reports on microsite access.
“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