Messages that look like your brand.
RCS turns the phone's own messaging app into a branded channel: a verified sender with your logo, images, carousels and buttons people can tap. Where RCS is not available, the message falls back to SMS.
- sender with your name and logo
- Verified
- images, cards, carousels, buttons
- Rich
- receipts and tap tracking
- Read
- to SMS, automatically
- Fallback
What an app screen can do, in the inbox.
No download needed: RCS messages arrive in the messaging app already on the phone, over mobile data or Wi-Fi.
- 01
Branded, verified sender
Messages show your name, logo and brand colour, with a verification badge that tells people it really is you.
- 02
Rich cards and carousels
Combine an image or a video, a title, a description and actions in one card, or line several up in a carousel.
- 03
Suggested replies and actions
Add buttons that send a reply, open a link, dial a number, share a location or add an event to the calendar.
- 04
Read receipts
Know when a message was delivered and when it was read, and see which buttons people tap.
- 05
SMS fallback
If a phone or network does not support RCS, the same request delivers a text message instead.
- 06
Real conversations
Replies and taps reach your webhook, so you can build guided flows and hand over to a person when needed.
From notification to conversation.
Everything people would otherwise open an app or a website for.
- Marketing
Promotions and offers
Show the product, the price and a button to buy, all inside the message.
- Transactional
Delivery and travel updates
Send a tracking update or a boarding pass, with actions to change the delivery slot or the seat.
- Two-way
Payments and reminders
Send a bill with a button to pay, or a reminder people confirm in one tap.
- Support
Customer service
Answer common questions with suggested replies and route the rest to an agent.
- Lifecycle
Re-engagement
Bring inactive users back with a message that is worth opening.
Rich content, plain JSON.
Describe the card, the media and the buttons in the request body. Delivery, read and tap events come back to your webhook.
- Typed content
- Text, files, cards and carousels each have their own content type.
- Suggestions as data
- Replies, links, calls, locations and calendar events are a list in the payload.
- An event for every interaction
- Delivery reports, seen reports and button taps are posted to your URL.
curl -X POST "$PULSR_API_URL/rcs/2/messages" \ -H "Authorization: App $PULSR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "messages": [{ "sender": "YourBrand", "destinations": [{ "to": "33639981234" }], "content": { "type": "CARD", "orientation": "VERTICAL", "content": { "title": "New in: the spring drop", "media": { "file": { "url": "https://yourapp.com/spring.jpg" } }, "suggestions": [ { "type": "OPEN_URL", "text": "Shop", "url": "https://yourapp.com/new" }, { "type": "REPLY", "text": "Stop", "postbackData": "opt_out" } ] } } }] }'Delivery and seen reports
Illustrative example
- PENDING_ACCEPTED
- DELIVERED_TO_HANDSET
- SEEN
Global reach, European roots.
Your messages, calls and their data are processed and stored on infrastructure hosted and operated in the European Union, in line with GDPR.
- 100% EU-hosted
- GDPR compliant
Questions, answered.
Which phones can receive RCS?
RCS works in the native messaging app on Android and on recent iPhones, where the operator supports it. Pulsr checks each number and falls back to SMS otherwise.
What is a verified sender?
A sender profile with your name, logo, colour and description, reviewed before launch so people know who is writing to them.
Do my users need to install anything?
No. RCS messages arrive in the messaging app that is already on the phone.
How is RCS priced?
It depends on the country, the operator and the type of message. Talk to us for a quote that fits your volumes.
Can I use RCS and SMS together?
Yes. They share the same account, key and webhook format, and SMS fallback is set per message.
Works with the rest of Pulsr.
One account, one key and one webhook format, whichever channel you add next.
Make your messages worth opening.
Tell us about your brand and we will help you get your sender verified and your first cards out.