What is Promotional, Transactional and Service Bulk SMS routes in DLT?
1. Promotional Bulk SMS route in DLT
Promotional Bulk SMS include offers, discounts and marketing SMS for advertising a product or service. Promotional SMS can be sent to Thousands of numbers all at once..
Please bear in mind when sending Promotional messages Customers can set preferences to receive promotional messages based on a particular time or day. As an example, if a mobile user has set preference to receive promotional SMS on Monday from 6 PM to 9 PM, so the messages will only be delivered to him at Monday 6 PM to 9 PM.In the this case your CR will be late in updating .
Sender ID (Header) can be created for sending promotional messages and it should be as an example only of 6 -9 numeric digits (not more or less). You cannot use alphabetic characters for creating Headers in promotional route and every Header will have a unique ID set by the operator.These will vary from country to country please ask your Account Manager to check the current guidelines.
SMS Examples
Dear customer, Get up to 30% off on shopping of Eu 100 and above. Hurry up, offer valid for a limited time only!
Summer Sale! Order now and get a free gift worth EU 10. Call us at 888888 for more details.
The Labour Day Sale is now on! up to 40% off + extra 10% off on all orders above USD. 150. Visit us today.
