We’re excited to announce that you can now set up and launch your own RCS Service directly in our webapp, giving you unparalleled control over your messaging. 🚀

With iOS 18.1 expected to launch in the next couple of weeks, RCS Business Messaging will soon be available on nearly all modern smartphones. This means you can preview your service live on your own device and experience exactly what your customers will see – no waiting, no guessing. Once you’re satisfied with the setup, you can submit your RCS Service for real-time approval with network operators, bringing your service live as soon as it’s ready.

Getting started...

Ready to get started? Log in to your account, go to Settings, select the tab Sender IDs and click Create RCS Service to begin setting up, testing, and perfecting your RCS Service.

If you need guidance, check out our Helpdesk articles for step-by-step instructions:

How to create your RCS Service: https://help.seven.io/en/articles/9946660-getting-started-with-rcs-how-to-create-and-set-up-your-rcs-service

How to launch your RCS Service: https://help.seven.io/en/articles/9947012-launch-your-rcs-service

Need more information about RCS? Check out our product page.

Our support team is here to help if you have any questions along the way.

We're excited to introduce our new RCS Business Messaging (RBM) API. This development marks a significant leap forward, enabling businesses to engage customers with richer, more interactive messaging experiences beyond traditional SMS.

🌟 Features

• Verified Sender: Establish trust with a verified sender status, showcasing your brand identity directly in the message interface. 🛡️✅
• Rich Media Messaging: Seamlessly incorporate images, videos, and audio into your communications. 📸🎥🎵
• Interactive Messaging: Elevate user engagement with read receipts, typing indicators, and rich card carousels. ✉️✅🔄
• Secure & Reliable: Ensure your messages are securely delivered across various devices and networks. 🔒✅
• Enhanced Analytics: Gain valuable insights into messaging performance and customer interactions. 📊🔍

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🛠️ How to Utilize

Our RCS API offers a suite of endpoints for integrating advanced messaging features into your applications and services, perfect for enriching customer support, marketing campaigns, and business communications.

🎉 Getting Started

• Documentation: Check our API documentation for comprehensive guides and examples. 📚
• Easy Integration: With our SDKs and developer tools, integrating RCS into your workflow is straightforward. 🧰💻
• Dedicated Support: Our support team is ready to assist you in making the most out of the RCS API. 🆘🤝

We're eager to see the innovative ways you'll use RCS API to enhance your messaging capabilities. Keep an eye out for further updates and new features as we continue to enrich our communications platform.

Thank you for your ongoing support and partnership.

Prepare to Be Amazed - Contacts Transformation

1. Unleash the Power of Full Search:

   • Say goodbye to the hunt for information! Our enhanced search now digs deep into every nook and cranny of your contacts, ensuring you find what you need, when you need it.

2. Craft Your Contacts View, Your Way:

   • Personalization just reached new heights! Customize and individually arrange rows in the contacts view to match your unique workflow, putting you in control of your interface.

3. Notes, Because Details Matter:

   • Don't let valuable insights slip through the cracks. Now, you can add notes to each contact, turning your database into a treasure trove of vital information.

4. Group Insights in a Glimpse:

   • Group management just got a facelift! Easily identify the groups to which a contact belongs, simplifying your ability to organize and segment your contacts.

5. Custom Fields, Now with Data Type Superpowers:

   • Your data, your rules! Define data types for custom fields, including Integer, Decimal, String, Date, Checkbox, Selection, Multi-Selection, email, and phone number, making your data structure as robust as you need it to be.

6. The Ultimate Cleanup:

   • Need a fresh start? We've got you covered. Now, you can wipe the slate clean and delete all your contacts in one fell swoop.

7. SMS Magic: Reach All Contacts at Once:

   • Streamline your communication like never before! With our new bulk SMS feature, you can send messages to all your contacts simultaneously, saving you time and effort.

We're thrilled to bring you these groundbreaking improvements to our Contacts Module. More amazing improvements are following. Buckle up

We are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking addition to our service that's going to revolutionize the way you communicate securely through our Mail-to-SMS Gateway. 🚀

🔒 Unmatched Security: With this latest update, you can send PGP encrypted emails to our gateway, ensuring your messages are protected end-to-end. Say goodbye to worries about sensitive information getting into the wrong hands!

🔑 Seamless Integration: Our user-friendly platform now effortlessly handles PGP-encrypted emails, making it easier than ever for you to send confidential messages via SMS. The integration is smooth and hassle-free!

💼 Business-Ready: This feature is not just for personal use; it's business-ready too! Securely share critical business data and confidential information with your team or clients, knowing that it's protected with the highest level of encryption.

📱 Instant SMS Delivery: Enjoy the same lightning-fast SMS delivery you're accustomed to, now with added layers of security. Your recipients will receive your messages in seconds, maintaining the convenience you expect.

🙌 Elevate Your Privacy: Privacy is paramount, and our PGP support ensures that your messages remain private and secure throughout the entire process.

To start sending PGP encrypted mails just download our public certificate here. https://app.seven.io/certificates/pgp/gateway%40gateway.seven.io.asc

Don't wait to try out this remarkable feature! Start sending PGP encrypted emails to our Mail-to-SMS Gateway now, and experience the future of secure messaging! 🎉🔐📲 #SecureMessaging #PGP #MailToSMS #Enhancement #PrivacyMatters

We have just added Mail-to-SMS to the Debugger. Now you can see all incoming mails sent from you to our mail-to-sms gateway including all headers to easier debug possible failures.

You can reach the debugger here: https://app.seven.io/developer/debugger

Concerned about the possibility of misplacing your two-factor authentication device used for logging into your account? Rest assured, as part of the 2FA setup process, you will now be provided with backup codes. These codes serve as a contingency plan, enabling you to reset your two-factor authentication in case of an emergency.

Great news: Let your text messages be branded with your company with custom domains.

You now have the possibility to use a custom domain name for our URL shortener.

If you specify a custom domain, our performance tracking feature will automatically replace all URLs in your text with your-domain.com/UDzvF7 instead of svn.me/UDzvF7.

We proudly introduce the usage of SSML for our Voice API!

From now you have all the options for adapting your text messages to speech. Set pauses, read numbers correctly or their individual digits, reduce speeds for codes and even select different voices such as female, male, or even child! Let us get the maximum out of your >seven voice experience!

Let's take a look at some examples.

967354 is not a high number - it’s an access code!

Let Brandon speak it like that and read numbers slowly for better understanding:

<speak version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xml:lang="en-US">
<voice name="en-us-male">
  Your access code is:
  <prosody rate="slow">
   <say-as interpret-as="number_digit">967354</say-as>
  </prosody>
</voice>
</speak>

Listen to the result here: https://youtu.be/l-FufBblX5s

Do you publish children's books? How about a suitable child's voice reading your message?

With SSML you have the possibility to select different kinds of Voices, like Women, Men, Children and even specialized for different languages, like English dialects, French, Arabic, Asian, Croatian or even Russian. You just send the voice with language tag and we build the SSML automatically to end up like this. So you can take care of yourself and we will generate the SSML requirements around it. The content part coming from you is then only beginning with the paragraph with your sentences.

<speak version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xml:lang="en-US">
<voice name="en-gb-child">
<lang xml:lang="en-gb">
  <p>
    <s>Hello, this is the audio book of the little girl with the red balloon!</s>
    <s>I have them read to me every night to fall asleep.</s>
  </p>
</lang>
</voice>
</speak>

Listen to the result here: https://youtu.be/ZxvpZTVGO0s

Wanna let them talk?

With >seven voice you can also vary the voices inside your text. This way can realize dialogs between a women and man, or with us - even a child. Let’s take a look at the following example:

<speak version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xml:lang="en-US">
<voice name="en-us-child">Hi, where did you buy these sunglasses? I think my mum would love them.</voice>
<voice name="en-us-female">Hello, i just bought them in the shop over there.</voice>
</speak>

Listen to the result here: https://youtu.be/hts7CwenJiE

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Play SSML in Voice API

It should be possible to play [SSML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_Synthesis_Markup_Language) in voice calls to change pronunciation, language, insert breaks and much more.

christian 1 year ago Improvement

Exciting news for developers: You can now filter all requests sent to our API and all webhooks to find what you are searching for.

You want to check only webhooks? Or want to search for failed requests? Just check our new filter feature in your debugger!

Ever wondered how the text-to-speech messages you sent over our Voice API sound like? Great news 🎉 We just added the ability to play the audio that has been sent to your customers in your journal!

This way you could easily check the quality and the correctness of pronunciation of your text. Or even see if the audio has been fully played to your recipients!

Please note that this feature is only available for calls which has not been sent with xml flag enabled.

Latencies are now visible in the debugger

You can now export your journal as PDF file.

You can now define your default country code to send messages to your destinations in local number format. Just change the default country code in your settings.

We are very pleased to announce that we can now offer third party application authentication via OAuth 2.0.
Learn more in our OAuth 2.0 documentation: https://www.seven.io/en/docs/gateway/http-api/oauth-2-0/

Search in Debugger for specific API Calls using the ID from x-sms77-trace-id header you receive back each API Call.

Define a scope for your API keys.

You can now subscribe to filtered webhooks via API.

Receive notifications via webhook about performance tracking clicks and views.

Sending Attachments via SMS is now also supported via our API.

You can now send JSON directly to our API.

curl 'https://gateway.seven.io/api/sms' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: basic YOUR_API_KEY'  \
  -d '{"to":"+49177777777","text":"Hello world :-)"}'

Send attachments in your messages!
Simply add the file to your SMS in our Webapp and we will handle everything else for you.

Get a webhook on an incoming phone call to your inbound number.
This way you can easily trigger arbitrary actions via a simple phone.