Messaging API Platform

Toll-Free SMS

Send and receive SMS and MMS on toll-free numbers across the US and Canada.

Toll-Free SMS
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Toll-Free SMS
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Learn how thousands of innovative businesses rely on Plivo for their customer engagement

Scalable Messaging With
SMS-Enabled Toll-Free Numbers

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A Powerful Alternative to Short Codes

Toll-free numbers support A2P use cases and offer up to 10 messages/second throughput without any extra carrier surcharges.

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Voice and SMS on the Same Number

Engage via SMS and voice calls from your toll-free phone numbers to power your omnichannel strategy with your customers.

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Instant Provisioning

Purchase and provision toll-free phone numbers instantly to start sending and receiving messages.

Robust Feature Set for All Your Business Needs

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Voice-Enabled by Default

Use one number for voice and SMS. All toll-free SMS numbers can send and receive SMS messages as well as make and receive phone calls.

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Message Queueing

Send a high volume of messages with a single API request. We queue your SMS messages and deliver them for you.

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Long SMS Concatenation

No more lost messages or manual chunking. Automatically split and reassemble messages longer than 160 characters (up to 1,600 characters).

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Unicode Characters

Our SMS API supports Unicode UTF-8 to send and receive SMS text messages in any language, including Chinese, Japanese, French, Arabic, and 100+ other languages and symbol scripts.

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Real-Time SMS Alerts and Logs

Fetch your SMS logs in real time and see detailed information, including message direction, message status, billing info, API log reports, and message timestamps.

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Handset Delivery Reports

Get real-time business intelligence from live handset delivery receipts from supported carriers. Quickly find out exact delivery statuses for all your SMS text messages sent.

Use Cases for Toll-Free SMS

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Online Retail

Improve your engagement with customers by sending SMS text messages using short codes for contests and promotions, and improve customer service and customer loyalty through reward campaigns.

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Marketing and Media

Build high-impact marketing campaigns that targets your customers in real time. Some of our customers use short code SMS messages to deliver time-sensitive info such as flight reservation reminders and point-of-sale campaigns.

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Financial Services

Enable two-factor authentication via SMS text message using a short code and protect your customers with an additional layer of security for any type of customer transaction, including account activity alerts, money transfers, and bill payments.

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Customer Service

Create the best customer care experience by providing tailored loyalty programs, accelerating support ticket responses, gathering product feedback, and sending timely order notifications, all via SMS text messages directly to the customers’ mobile phones.

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Transportation and Logistics

Optimize complex logistics and virtually any process that requires instant communication by using SMS text messages: rideshare coordination, supply chain inventory tracking, order confirmations, shipment delivery, product returns and recalls.

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Health Care

Enhance patient experiences and rapport by improving health care communication, reducing appointment no-shows with SMS alerts, delivering time-critical emergency health services, and optimizing public health campaigns.

Pricing Comparison

US
United States of America

* Additional carrier charges apply to all outbound SMS messages

Number Type
Plivo
Other Providers
Savings
Toll-free Number
$1.00/month
$2.00/month
50%
Outbound SMS
$0.0065/sms
$0.0075/sms
13%
Inbound SMS
$0.0075/sms
$0.0065/sms
13%
CA
Canada

* Additional carrier charges apply to all outbound SMS messages

Number Type
Plivo
Other Providers
Savings
Toll-free Number
$1.00/month
$2.00/month
50%
Outbound SMS
$0.0065/sms
$0.0075/sms
13%
Inbound SMS
$0.0065/sms
$0.0075/sms
13%

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