Short Code

What are short Codes?

Short codes (also known as short numbers) are special telephone numbers, significantly shorter than full telephone numbers, that can be used to address SMS and MMS messages from certain service provider's mobile phones or fixed phones. There are two types of short codes: dialing and messaging.

Example of Short code usage

• Text Voting (as on TV shows)
• Lead Generation
• Feedback collection
• Contests and Promotions
• Event Solutions
• Fun & Interactivity

Not only marketers, but most of the application developers have also started opting short codes for launching interactive SMS services for their customers, employees or target audience. These services range from information on demand, subscription-based service or SMS Trivia Games, SMS contests, opinion polls and SMS voting services.

We provides both shared and dedicated SMS short code service.

Shared short code is shared between many customers, so, to configure a keyword on the shared short code, we require to check its availability and the keyword needs to be created at end. The differentiating factor is the keyword here.

The dedicated short code is assigned to a particular customer. The customers are free to create their own keywords and also define aliases for it. The availability of the keyword is not a concern in the dedicated short code.

Web Technologies Pull platform is based on multiple nodes and has the facility to run multiple instances of every node.

Web Technologies Pull Platform is completely based on suffix model i.e. for any short code or short code with suffix there is some application to process that request and after processing, the application returns back the response message to Pull Platform for sending back to customer.

SMS Short codes are widely used for value-added services such as television voting, ordering ringtones, charity donations and mobile services. They are used in various campaigns. Messages sent to short code numbers are generally billed at a higher rate than a standard SMS.