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10DLC Campaign Approval Best Practices

 

Follow these best practices to get your 10DLC campaigns approved for the vetting process.

What is 10DLC?

 

A 10DLC approval is basically a green light for your business to send text messages (A2P messaging) using a specific 10-digit long code phone number in the US.

Here’s the process in a nutshell:

  1. You get a 10-digit long code phone number, which is like a regular local phone number, but for high volume business texting.

  2. You register your brand and the campaign you’ll be using the number for with a central registry and potentially with the mobile carrier networks (MNOs) themselves.

  3. They review your registration to make sure it’s legit and not spam.

Getting approved is important because it ensures your messages get delivered and aren’t blocked as spam. It’s also kind of mandatory these days, as most carriers require it for business text messaging.

Best Practices

To ensure your Campaigns are approved in this vetting process, please follow these best practices when submitting new Campaigns.

Do not include forbidden use cases to avoid resulting in Campaign rejection

Make sure your A2P Campaign does not involve prohibited content such as cannabis, hate speech, etc.

Consistency in brand, website and sample messages

The brand and website need to be the same that the ones you include in your sample messages.

Consistency in sample messages and use cases

If you register a political campaign, but your sample messages say “Your one-time password is: 123456”, your campaign will be rejected

Consistency in email domain and company name

If you register a brand as ABC Corp , but you provide an email address with the gmail domain, your campaign will be rejected. This only applies to large corporations that should have dedicated email domains

Submit only real, working websites

If your opt in process should be via your website, but you provide a website address that does not work, your campaign will be rejected

Send messages according to the brand that you registered

If you register a brand for technology company but end up sending messages for a different customer from a construction company, your campaign will be rejected

Make sure consumer opt-in is collected appropriately

Ensure you send messages only to the people who really want to receive them. Please refer to the CTIA guidelines to see detailed instructions and best practices on handling consumer consent.

The opt-in language needs to be available on your website if you indicated in the “message flow” field that a consumer opts into your campaign on your company website

If you collect the opt-in on your website, you should have something like “By providing your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from ABC Corp. Message & data rates may apply. Message frequency varies.”

Include the opt-out language in at least one of your sample messages

You need to include the opt out option in your sample messages, something like “Please reply STOP to opt out”.

Express Opt In

Every place which requires a phone number must have opt-in language as well as a checkbox. This applies to contact pages, donation pages, etc. Opt-in language must include consent and opt-out instructions and links to the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions

Privacy Policy

The privacy policy CANNOT allow for the sharing/selling of end user information to third parties.

Embedded Links/Numbers

If the campaign was created with the following attributes: 

Embedded Phone Number

Embedded Link

Then the samples must contain the phone number/link.

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