It's time to take a quick look
at what we learned!
Summary
In this chapter, we learned to send SMS messages to our customers. Specifically:
We built a system to update order status for POTR.
We learned how to set-up an account with Clickatell and how the gateway
APIs work. We then created the SMSGateway wrapper class.
We then saw how an SMS is delivered from the website to the mobile device,
through SMSC and MSC.
We touched upon using callbacks for message status updates.
We learned how to query the message status and send bulk messages.
We also got an overview of setting up our own SMS gateway and guidelines
for selecting a third-party gateway.
Luigi has a new idea of sending special offers with photographs via MMS now. In
the next chapter, we will look at how we can do just that!
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Adding Spice to
Messages: MMS
Sending text messages to customers allowed us to instantly connect with our
customers. Our SMS work has been very rewarding for Luigi and Pizza On the Run.
This small update removed the customers' anxiety! Luigi has now started sending
special offers via SMS.
Excited as he is, Luigi now wants to explore Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
and send out special offers with a photo of the dish.
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