Did you know you could combine our short url feature in Quick SMS with placeholders?

Simply create a contact list and add the path in the custom fields to get a unique link sent to each contact.

For example, your message could be

and in the contact list, have the value for custom field 1 be

If you've sent the message with the shorten-urls toggled on, the recipient would receive a message which then redirects them to the link of your choice.

Try it yourself at https://dashboard.clicksend.com/sms/quick-sms

When using the shorturl functionality through the Quick SMS or sms/send endpoints previously, URLs must start with https:// in order to be sent.

This restriction has now been removed, and any link with a valid domain will be accepted.

Give it a whirl over at https://dashboard.clicksend.com/sms/quick-sms

Hot on the heels of our API release last year, you will now be able to shorten your URLs when sending out a message via the Quick SMS page on our dashboard.

Head over to https://dashboard.clicksend.com/sms/quick-sms, toggle the feature on, and give it a whirl!

For our API users, simply include the shorten_urls parameter to true. More information can be found at https://developers.clicksend.com/docs/messaging/sms/

Extending the functionality of our new short-url feature from last year, you will now be able to track the click-through rates and get specifics on how often your links are being opened per recipient.

For more information, visit our API documentation at https://developers.clicksend.com/docs/messaging/url-shortening/

You've asked, we've heard!

The Quick SMS endpoint (v3/sms/send) now supports the ability to send shortened URL links, saving your characters for what matters most - your message.

For the moment, this is limited to API users only, but the dashboard experience will be coming out in the new year.

To find out more, please visit https://developers.clicksend.com/docs/messaging/sms/#operation/send-sms for guidance on integrating and https://help.clicksend.com/article/1cqf0m0vni-short-url-in-quick-sms for a more in depth explanation

Exciting new updates to our ActiveCampaign integration.

For more information, visit https://integrations.clicksend.com/listings/activecampaign/ or https://www.activecampaign.com/marketplace/author/clicksend for some ideas on what you could do!

Searching for contacts on our quick sending pages now supports first and last name combinations, making it easier to refine your search and find that one contact in the haystack

Do you use Zendesk in your company's workflow?

We are proud to announce our new integration with Zendesk, allowing you to streamline your customer communications by :

Check out the listing at https://integrations.clicksend.com/listings/zendesk/

Introducing our new integration partner, Albato

With Albato and ClickSend, you can easily set up and automate text messaging for over 600 apps without any coding

Check out the listing at https://integrations.clicksend.com/listings/albato/

For users that have multiple subaccounts, letters sent out via our letter campaign product were being misattributed to the wrong username.

This has now been fixed, and will reflect the correct username moving forward.