Take your websites mobile with our API
Zeep Mobile is a simple, free SMS API that any website or web application can use to communicate with its users via text messages. If you're looking to add some mobile features to your websites, our API provides all of the tools you need.
So, what can your website do with Zeep?
Subscribe users to your mobile features
To subscribe your users to the mobile features you cook up with our API, embed our Mobile Settings Panel somewhere in your website or application. Using this panel, your users provide their mobile number and then Zeep Mobile sends them a message asking if it's alright for your website to send them messages.
Once that user replies YES to confirm their subscription, your site will be able to send and receive messages to and from their mobile device. Don't worry—all of these instructions are available within the panel for your users.
Mobile Settings Panel
Your users will be able to keep their numbers up to date via this panel. We also provide a basic support site for subscribers - zeep.me - it has helpful information about our service.
Send text messages
Once a user subscribes to your mobile features, you'll be able to send text messages to their mobile device - anytime! You can send to a group of users or just one individual - it's entirely up to you. You can send as many messages as you want, there are no volume restrictions. It also won't cost you anything - sending messages via Zeep Mobile is absolutely free. Users who receive these messages pay their standard rates for incoming SMS messages.
Users receive your website's messages from 88147 with your website prefix in front of the message:
Receive text messages
Users can also send text messages to your website. What your site does with these messages is entirely up to you. You can let users update their status, post a message to a mobile blog, or maybe let them check tomorrow's weather forecast.
To send a text message to your website, a user sends a message to 88147 with your website prefix as the first word in the message:
Behind the Scenes
We use our shortcode—88147—to send and receive text messages on behalf of websites that use our API. When a website wants to send a message to a subscriber's mobile device, it lets our servers know via the API. We pass that message onto mobile carriers which then route it to the intended user's mobile device. The process works the same way, but in reverse, when a user wants to send a message to a website.
