{"id":1339,"date":"2025-02-26T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1339"},"modified":"2025-02-26T01:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:56:08","password":"","slug":"can-service-explicit-sms-be-used-for-marketing","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/can-service-explicit-sms-be-used-for-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Service Explicit SMS be used for marketing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, <strong>Service Explicit SMS<\/strong> are for opt-in service updates (e.g., &#8220;Your appointment is tomorrow -SMSGAT&#8221;), not marketing. They require explicit consent and are available 24\/7, unlike Promotional SMS. Confused? Compare them on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/service-explicit-sms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Service Explicit SMS page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/sms-types\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SMS Types guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Service Explicit SMS are for opt-in service updates (e.g., &#8220;Your appointment is tomorrow -SMSGAT&#8221;), not marketing. They require explicit consent and are available 24\/7, unlike Promotional SMS. Confused? Compare them on our Service Explicit SMS page and SMS Types guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1328],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1339","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-dlt"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":41,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"DLT","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/dlt\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}