HOW LONG CODE WORKS
Long Code is basically used for receiving incoming SMS from any mobile device to your application. The biggest advantage of Long Number is it has global reach. Utilisation of long code has wide scope depending your need and requirement. Following are the few areas where long code is used
- Lead Generation and capture
- Receiving inquiries
- Automating pull based information from database
- Running a Quiz contests
- Running a voting campaign
- Scheduling a cron job
- Scheduling a cron job
- Two way communication
- Application automation
- Mobile recharge system
- Information pulling
Data Flow Diagram
The below diagram will give a better understanding on how the data travels on the long code or short code services.
- User types in his request for an information and sends it to our Long Code Number
- This gets routed to the SMSC of user’s mobile service provider.
- This Long code in the SMSC is mapped to SMSLanes’s SMS Application Server
- The SMS Application server processes the request by retrieving the result from the Database Server
- The result is then pushed back from the SMS Application Server to end user’s Mobile via the SMSC
