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TEXT MESSAGING
Buy a real phone number registered in any country of your choice today and receive SMS online regardless of your location, IP address or device. With our dedicated virtual SMS number rental service, you can receive SMS text messages online without disclosing your personal phone number.
In a few easy steps, you can have access to a temporary, disposable phone number that you can use to receive verification codes for WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber etc., SMS notifications and even text messages from international employees and virtual office clients. Maintain your privacy, safety and anonymity on the internet and remain accessible anywhere in the world with SMS.cx virtual SMS service.
Examples of how to use a virtual phone number
There are several ways that virtual mobile numbers can be used
Grow subscribers list
Build a database of subscribers' phone numbers and obtain their consent for SMS marketing (Opt-in database). Customers will text keyword OPT-IN or SUBSCRIBE to your virtual mobile number
Two-way messaging
Two-Way SMS lets you send and receive SMS, making it easy for your customers to respond. Suitable for engagement with clients, appointment confirmations, polls and more
Accounts verification
When you sign up for an online service with a temporary phone number, use the virtual phone number to verify and confirm your account and keep your privacy safe
Use virtual phone numbers for account activation
Use a virtual phone number to receive SMS online and create an account on any social media platform or any account registration.You can buy temporary mobile phone numbers from over a dozen countries for different time periods (1 day, 1 week, 30 days).
Our rent solution lets you register for any social network or website without getting banned.If you want to buy a larger number of mobile numbers, you can buy virtual phone numbers in bulk.
Nowadays, any internet account registration, whether it's a social media site or other website, requires phone number verificationHowever, most people are opposed to this because they value their privacy. Our temporary virtual phone number lets you activate accounts in minutes while keeping your privacy.
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Create accounts on any website or activate any service
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Buy phone numbers in bulk
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Guaranteed privacy and security
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Manage received SMS from an online dashboard and/or forward via API webhook
Virtual phone number for opt-in & opt-out
Setting up a textable keyword like "OPT-IN", "SUBSCRIBE" or "JOIN" on a virtual phone number is a good way to get prospects and customers to opt in to your subscribers list.This way of opt-in doesn't require a sign-up page to be set up online. The textable keyword, which is similar to a QR code, can be printed or shown digitally.
In SMS marketing, clients who opt-in, give their phone numbers and consent to businesses they're interested in so they can get special offers.This is one way for businesses to increase sales and brand awareness, and it's also a way for clients to find out about the latest offers, events from that business.
Opt-out is the opposite of opt-in. It means to stop getting SMS marketing messages from a company.Clients usually text a phrase like "CANCEL", "QUIT", "OPT-OUT", "UNSUBSCRIBE" or "STOP" to your virtual phone number.This automatically unsubscribe mechanism makes it easy for people to opt out of receiving bulk SMS, which lets you keep subscriber lists that clean themselves.
Virtual phone number for two-way SMS messaging
A virtual phone number is a virtual mobile number that can be used to send and receive SMS online. It works very well for two-way SMS communication.For example, if you send a lot of SMS messages and want to get replies, you need a virtual mobile number.A virtual mobile number makes it easy for your customers or employees to get in touch with you.With a virtual phone number is easy to have two-way conversations with your customers via SMS.
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Appointment reminders/confirmations
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Customer support
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Surveys & polls
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Customer feedback
Code examples for Virtual Phone Number API
Integrate our advanced rent & receive SMS API into your application and start receiving SMS in minutes.
Make requests to the API to get a list with latest received SMS or provide a callback URL (webhook) to have the API forward instantly all the received SMS.
Get started quickly with our official API wrappers and client libraries. They are available in popular languages like Python, PHP, Node.js, Java, and others.
There is no client library for your preferred language? Use any generic HTTP library you want - it's easy.
Get API Key
Read Numbers Rent API documentation
- Receive SMS (Webhook)
- Get list of received SMS
POST /your-webhook-url HTTP/1.1Host: your-server.comContent-Type: application/json{ "event": "receive_sms", "data": [ { "msgId": "a079b9d0-2e2d-4de5-a895-dc476c98b4fb", "from": "+49151231307xx", "countryIso": "DE", "to": "+49151239603xx", "text": "I reply confirming the appointment with Dr. Mark", "cost": 0, "receivedAt": "2022-02-12 08:16:05" }, { "msgId": "0ef52a99-10b1-4813-af84-9b285edfbc30", "from": "+336121034xx", "countryIso": "FR", "to": "+336124855xx", "text": "Je veux annuler la commande", "cost": 0, "receivedAt": "2022-02-12 08:16:05" }, { "msgId": "961dbfa9-8e12-4f96-b59d-6c0c79c53edc", "from": "+3931234958xx", "countryIso": "IT", "to": "+3931233506xx", "text": "Confermo l'ordine effettuato sul tuo sito", "cost": 0, "receivedAt": "2022-02-12 08:16:05" } ]}
curl --request GET \ --url https://api.sms.cx/numbers/rent/{rentId}/inbound \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer REPLACE_ACCESS_TOKEN'
What is a virtual mobile number?
Unlike a traditional phone number, a virtual phone number is not attached to a physical SIM card. However, a virtual mobile number allows you to do most things that you can do with a traditional phone number including receiving SMS messages.
How is a virtual phone number used?
Whether you are a company, entrepreneur or an individual, a dedicated virtual phone number can be useful to you in many ways. As accompany or organization you are able to expand your operations regionally and internationally, making it easier for your employees and customers to reach you using a local number. For entrepreneurs and individuals, it becomes possible to conduct business, correspond with new people on the internet and sign up for services and subscriptions while keeping your personal phone number private.
Here are some ways that a virtual phone number can help your business:
- Let your customers opt in to a contact list so they can get latest updates and special offers. Put your virtual phone number on marketing materials or online and see your database grow
- Allow customers or employees to make or change appointments through SMS
- Manage customer questions and after-sale support through a credible channel
- Use the virtual phone number as a way to opt-out, in addition to the opt-out link
- By holding a text-in competition via SMS, you can encourage potential customers to sign up for your mailing list
SMS.cx virtual phone numbers offer the practical solution of being able to maintain a temporary and disposable number on the same phone as your personal number.
What are the benefits of a virtual SMS number?
- Unlimited applications: You can use virtual phone numbers to sign up for messaging services (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram etc.), communicate with international partners, correspond anonymously, etc.
- Location independent: With our reliable virtual SMS phone number service, you will never miss an incoming text message whether in the office, on the move or out of the country
- SMS messages delivered to any device: Access your text messages from your SMS.cx dashboard on PC, smartphone or tablet
- Stronger local presence: Activate a local phone number to increase customer trust and widen your reach internationally
- Cost effective: Our low-cost rates make a virtual SMS phone number accessible to everyone. No hidden charges or fees
- Super-fast: Receive inbound SMS messages, codes, notifications and verifications instantly
How it works?
The operation of SMS.cx virtual phone number service is simple. When you receive SMS messages on your activated number, they are automatically redirected to your SMS.cx dashboard. Additionaly, you can set up a webhook URL where our API will instantly forward the received SMS.
We offfer virtual mobile numbers for sale in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Puerto Rico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA.
How to start with Virtual Phone Numbers
On this page, we explained in detail why you should use dedicated virtual numbers. Here are some helpful things to do next:
- Signup for an account to buy Virtual Phone Numbers
- View examples of Virtual Number Rent methods (see available list, rent number, get received SMS list, cancel rent, renew rent) with our SDK and API client libraries
- Read the full documentation about how to use the Number Rent API
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