At the heart of our mobile messaging offerings is the award-winning SMS Gateway. The SMS Gateway offers insurance companies a hosted messaging platform that will allow you to SMS-enable any application, website or system. There is no charge to use this user-friendly web-based interface to manage your chosen API connections and monitor your campaigns - you only pay for the text messages you send. Our SMS Gateway delivers to over 220 countries through more than 790 network operators; it is reliable, robust and offers additional security measures for added protection of confidential information. Test the Clickatell SMS Gateway now with 10 free pre-populated test text messages. Clickatell's HTTP/S API Connection :This web-based connection is simple, versatile and can overcome firewall problems. It has batch sending capabilities and offers SSL encryption for both inbound and outbound messages.

Clickatell's SMTP API Connection : This API is popular with customers wanting to send SMS messages via an email messaging system. Our SMTP API is the industry standard for high volume text messaging connections and particularly useful for notification alerts.

Clickatell's FTP API Connection :The FTP API connection is very fast and ideal for once-off high volume message dispatches. Customers using text based databases can upload text files to Clickatell's FTP site for sending.

Clickatell's XML API Connection : Our XML API facilitates communication between applications. It is simple to integrate and language independent. Clickatell's XML connection is enabled for Token Pay functionality.

Clickatell's SOAP Protocol: The SOAP API is a basic messaging framework; a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages using HTTP/HTTPS. Using the XML-based Web Services Description Language, SOAP forms a foundation layer of the web services protocol stack.

Clickatell's COM Object:COM Object enables connectivity from a Windows environment and allows developers to easily integrate SMS sending into their programmes.

What you can achieve with our products:

• Outcome-based messaging: Automatically reply to information requests or confirmation of policy details using trigger phrases, names, dates, location details etc.
• Two-way messaging: Allows interactivity between the company and customers reducing frustration, fraud and increasing campaign success.
• Delivery tracking: Rest assured that your customers are receiving your messages with the delivery tracking service.
• Secure SMS communication: Clickatell offers additional security measures such as 2-factor authentication and SSL encryption on both inbound and outbound text messages.
• Efficient bulk SMS text messaging: Thousands of SMS reminders, notifications, greetings and confirmation can be sent in the time it takes to conduct one phone call.

SMS has proven itself to be an efficient and reliable form of communication in the Financial Services sector and has received widespread adoption due to its immediate, real-time relevance characteristics and has therefore become a compelling mobile transaction and alert medium. By providing innovative text-based services to customers, customer-centric organizations such as insurance companies can reach more people, more often, in a more relevant manner allowing them to reduce the high cost of insurance fraud, ease escalating operational and infrastructural costs and pave the way for closer customer relationships through innovative 'pay-as-you-go' mobile insurance solutions.