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Sinch

Score7.6 out of 10

10 Reviews and Ratings

What is Sinch?

Sinch empowers businesses to connect with customers anywhere, on any channel, through a globally scalable communications platform designed to deliver reliability, reach, and omnichannel engagement.

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1 / 5

Sinch is a disaster for those that value customer service

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My entire experience with sinch has been nothing but a disaster. I signed up and started filling out my profile information and there were some errors I was getting. On top of that my billing was all wrong. It took nearly an entire month, 3 phone calls, and numerous emails in order to finally get a response from my account manager. All this wasted time and effort also cost me and my company money with the project we were working on. Then once things finally did start moving, I was told I needed to wait an additional 6 weeks in order to see if I would even be able to use this service. No guarantees, no guidance, no assistance on how to ensure the vetting process could work in my favor. So in the end after 4 months of waiting, I would then have to wait another 6 weeks, and I HOPE things worked in my favor. I don't recommend using this company if you value support and customer service.

Pros

  • In my opinion, nothing

Cons

  • customer service
  • efficiency
  • consumer confidence
  • response time

Most Important Features

  • text message emergence system

Return on Investment

  • total negative. lost time. lost money. high stress. no reward

Immediate communication via SMSs via durable APIs and console - Sinch

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Since mobile messages are one of the widely accepted and rapidly responded means of communication, Sinch helps us to reach our thousands of employees with a single script. To maintain compliance in our organsation, we have regular training/sessions which are to be done before deadlines without fail. To make sure this happens, we send out SMS notifications to our employees on a periodic basis and it has proven very effective. The rate of missing on trainings have fallen hugely and now Sinch is helping us to maintain that compliance state throughout our organisation.

Pros

  • We have tied our training deadlines w.r.t. the employees and their completion status. In case the status is false, Since will keep on sending reminder SMSs on their mobile phones periodically and therefore, informs the employee to complete training well before the deadline.
  • Apart from this, we also send upcoming Holidays, Salary credits, and much more notifications to our employees which keep them informed at all times.

Cons

  • I feel that Sinch does not have very well customer support and documentation. Despite having a strong and durable platform, Sinch brings on a very huge learning curve as very limited knowledge articles are provided on their website. Since this is a new tool, there are very limited online communities/ forums supporting this tool and hence, a newbie will definitely struggle in deploying/ using Sinch in my opinion.

Most Important Features

  • SMS service
  • Durable APIs which support tons of languages

Return on Investment

  • Positive return on investment

Other Software Used

Azure AD Security Governance, Azure Artifacts, Azure CDN, Azure Bing Search

Sinch is a great SMS aggregator

Pros

  • Performance
  • Support
  • SMS

Cons

  • Pricing

Most Important Features

  • SMS
  • Aggregation
  • Short codes

Return on Investment

  • N/A
  • Service Provider for clients

Other Software Used

Zoom

Easy to use and reliable

Pros

  • Short and long code procurement and management.
  • Certification of long and short codes.
  • Route management.

Cons

  • Improved UI for easier navigation to the owned short codes and status of their certification.
  • List of carrier requirements for certification (i.e. keywords).
  • Language and character do's and don't's for specific routes.

Return on Investment

  • Ease of use - straightforward purchasing process and setup.
  • Satisfied customers - reliable routes and service for text messaging.
  • Integration with our marketing platform made the use of codes easy.

mBlox Supporting Enterprise Level Wholesale SMS and MMS Solutions

Pros

  • mBlox has top tier support, with 24/7/365 availability.
  • mBlox engineers have industry knowledge that allows tuning and optimizing to each of the carriers they interconnect with.
  • mBlox's service implementation team has industry knowledge which helps shortcode programs get approved by the carriers quickly.

Cons

  • Honestly, mBlox is spot on in terms of support, I can't think of anything they should improve on.

Return on Investment

  • mBlox's cost structure has had a positive effect on our ROI.
  • mBlox is able to provide affordable top tier service.

Alternatives Considered

OpenMarket

Other Software Used

CallFire, OpenMarket