SMS Gateway – Heritage IT solutions can manage simultaneous connections to one or more SMSCs, supporting the major SMSC protocols, including SMPP, UCP/EMI, CIMD2, HTTP, and/or GSM modems. Creative Web Designers handles the low level protocol details, and makes it easy to switch between different providers, as well as making it easy to add additional connections for situations where it is advantageous to route messages for different countries via different providers.

Heritage IT solutions offers simple SMS gateway connectivity for those who need to SMS-enable their systems, websites, or applications. Using Creative Web Designers API (Application Programming Interface) integration is fast, simple and reliable.
Our API is immediately multicast messaging enabled, allowing integration to any front-end or legacy system, with a direct connection into Heritage IT solutions global gateways.
Learn more about each of our API connectivity options below:

• HTTP/S API
  Our most popular connection, HTTP is one of the simpler forms of communication to the Creative Web Designers API. It is used in the form of an HTTP/Internet Post.
• SMTP [E-mail to SMS] API
  Another firm favourite, the SMTP API allows messages that are sent via e-mail to be converted to SMS. Popular with customers who already have an e-mail messaging system in place. 
• SMPP API
  Our most robust connection, suitable for customers who send large volumes of traffic. Heritage IT Solutions offers a global SMPP connection using the SMPP 3.3 standard. Customers are required to have SMPP client software in place, and unlike our other APIs there are minimum volume requirements when using SMPP.
• XML API
  If you are familiar with XML, Creative Web Designers offers an XML interface with its own set of DTDs. Currently supports XML over HTTP.
• FTP API
  Suitable for once off, high volume messaging. The FTP upload facility allows customers to upload text files to Heritage IT Solutions FTP site, and have the files automatically dispatched to message recipients.
• COM Object API
  Popular with windows-based developers, the Heritage IT Solutions COM API object's rich set of methods and definitions make it easy for a user to integrate SMS sending into their programs or ASP pages.

Web to SMS
This simple to use Web interface allows you to communicate instantly with individuals or groups via bulk text messaging, and receive replies to an inbox on the website. The following features are available:

• Phonebook
• Message history with status reports
• Buy and manage credits online
• Scheduling of messages for a future date
• Multiple messages from file upload
• Low Credit Notification

• Inbox
• Manage Invoices
• Purge message facility
• Controllable sender id
• SMS Merge
• SSL Encryption

Desktop Software
With our Bulksms Text Messenger you extend the power of SMS to your desktop. This is feature rich software is easy to install and use. It has a familiar look and feel, similar to your e-mail client. Replies to messages are received in an Inbox. Messages can be replied to, or forwarded to others. The software was designed to facilitate quick group and individual messaging.
Additional features are:

• Easy Outlook Address book integration.
• Creation of distribution groups.
• Uploading of databases from csv or tab delimited files.
• Quick messaging to large groups (up to 20000/group)
  and individuals.
• Personalised messaging.
• Detailed reporting of all sent and received messages.

Electronic Application Interface
Our EAPI (Electronic Application Programming Interface) allows your organization to SMS enable your own applications. The EAPI can be used for tasks from automatic notification to message delivery status. The EAPI is based on simple HTTP requests. Data is by default returned to you in a pipe-delimited (|) format, and you can generally submit everything you need to as simple query parameters.

2-Way SMS Application Enabler –Heritage IT Solutions  is a great tool for enabling rapid development of interactive SMS applications and services. When Heritage IT Solutions receives an SMS message, it can be configured to dispatch that message to a script running on an HTTP server, to a local executable program, or local script or batch file. This provides a simple way to get received messages into an application, so that the application can perform custom processing on the message. The application can generate a simple reply back to the received message, or perform more advanced application specific logic.

MMSC – Heritage IT Solutions is an Multimedia Messaging Service Centre, or MMSC. It has the capability to support person-to-person (phone-to-phone) MMS messaging, as well as application-to-person and person-to-application MMS messaging. Over 20 mobile operators are using Heritage IT Solutions as an MMSC to enable multimedia messaging on their networks.

MMSC for Application to person messaging – In many environments, Heritage IT Solutions is implemented as a secondary MMSC to enable application to person MMS messaging, while another MMSC provides person-to-person MMS messaging services.

MMS Gateway – Heritage IT Solutions can interface to existing MMSCs using MM7, MM4, or EAIF. It can also interface to operator MMSCs over a GPRS modem using MM1. Heritage IT Solutions handles the low level protocol details, and makes it easy to switch beteen different providers, as well as making it easy to add additional connections.

WAP Push Proxy Gateway (PPG) – Heritage IT Solutions makes it easy to send WAP Push messages, supporting push message submission via a simple HTTP interface, as well as support for the more advanced Push Access Protocol (PAP) interface. Heritage IT Solutions also includes support for Multimedia WAP Push, which can be used as a lower cost alternative to MMS for the delivery of multimedia content.

OTA Provisioning Gateway – Heritage IT Solutions supports OTA (Over-the-Air) provisioning based upon the Nokia/Ericsson OTA specification, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Provisioning Content specification. These protocols allow browser, messaging and synchronization settings to be sent to devices over SMS. OMA Provisioning also supports additional setting types, such as those used for Push-to-Talk, e-mail, and more.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) Enabler – Heritage IT Solutions provides a simple interface for sending out MMS or WAP Push messages with DRM Forward-Lock enabled. Heritage IT Solutions also supports the encoding of more advanced DRM rights messages for delivery over SMS/WAP Push.

SMSC Multiplexer – Heritage IT Solutions allows multiple applications to share SMSC connections by functioning as an SMPP server. Applications designed to submit messages using SMPP can connect to a Heritage IT Solutions server, and Heritage IT Solutions can route the messages over any of its supported SMSC links. Heritage IT Solutions can also support multiple clients connecting in to submit messages over an HTTP/Web interface.
These are just some of the application uses of Heritage IT Solutions We invite you to study our features list to learn about the technical capabilities of Heritage IT Solutions that might be of use for your applications and/or services.