SMS Services to offer to customres
The following guides lists some of the services you can offer to your customers with the Ozeki SMS Gateway platform. In addition to these services, you can also allow your customer to send SMS from their databases, or from their IT applications, and of course you can offer various user interfaces such as SMS from Excel, or the Ozeki SMS Messenger app for human users.
SMS service you can offer
The two most common services SMS services providers offer to their customers are the SMPP SMS service and the HTTP/REST API SMS service.
Ozeki SMS Gateway has a built in SMPP server. It allows yout to create SMPP user accounts. SMPP users can connect to your system and send SMS messages through your connections. Check out how you can configure your SMPP server and how you can create SMPP user accounts
How to offer an SMPP SMS service to customers
Ozeki SMS Gateway has a built in HTTP server. It allows yout to create HTTP user accounts. HTTP users can send SMS messages over the HTTP/REST API. Check out how you can configure your HTTP server and how you can create HTTP user accounts and how you can generate HTTP API keys for your customers.
How to offer a HTTP/REST API SMS service to cusotmers
If you wish to provide SMS service to your customers, one of the best protocol to use is the OZX protocol. Ozeki 10 SMS gateway has a built in OZX server, that allows you to provide OZX SMS Service. In this guide you will learn how to enable the OZX SMS service and how you can create OZX user account, to allow your users (or customers) to connect to your system.
OZX server
How to authenticate users
There are two ways to authenticate eligible users: you can create user accounts for your customer manually, or you can authenticate them automatically using one of the following options: SQL authentication, LDAP authentication, HTTP authentication.
If you setup automatic user authentication, you can store user accounts in your database, (or in Mircrosoft Active Directory or a Linux LDAP server or on a webserver, where user's can be authenticated with HTTP requests). In these cases when a user tries to login to the SMPP sms srevice (or the HTTP SMS service), the Ozeki SMS Gateway software will perform an authentication request using the configured authentication method, and it will only let the user in, if he is eligible for the service based on the provided credentials.
One of the basic system administration tasks is to create user accounts for all users of the SMS software. After user identification, SMS users have access to an efficient and user-friendly SMS tool that enables businesses to manage SMS communication. With features like bulk messaging, personalization, scheduling, and inbox management, it offers a powerful solution for sending and receiving SMS messages.
Manual user account setup
TSecure your SMPP server by authenticating users through a database. This guide provides easy-to-follow instructions to connect your server to a database, ensuring only authorized users access your SMS services. By centralizing user credential management, you'll significantly enhance your server's security. Discover how to implement this essential security measure with this handy resource.
Check how to use SQL user authentication in SMS Gateway
By checking this page, you can learn about how to authenticate the users registered in Microsoft Domain. Ozeki SMS Gateway provides the authentication of these users by using LDAP protocol that can reach the user database in Windows Server and check if the user is allowed to log in.
See how you can use LDAP protocol to authenticate users
If your users can be authenticated by a web service or by using HTTP requests, you can setup the HTTP user authentication provicder. The HTTP user authentication can use an HTTP GET or HTTP POST request to find out if a user is allowed to login to your SMPP (or HTTP SMS) service. The authentication takes place every time the customer wants to login.
Learn about how to use HTTP user authentication
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