The information provided through a Broadcast Analysis.
Broadcast Overview
The first half of a broadcast analysis provides information which relates to the broadcast as a whole:
- broadcastID: The unique identifier allocated to the broadcast.
- Date & Time: The date and time that the broadcast was made.
- Source: The means through which the broadcast was made.
- Source IP: For broadcasts made using the Web-to-SMS service or the HTTP version of the SMS API, this is the IP address from which the broadcast was made.
- Source Email: For broadcasts made through the Email-to-SMS service or the SMTP version of the SMS API, this is the email address from which the broadcast was made.
- Source MO: For broadcasts made in response to an MO SMS, this is its smsID.
- Originator: The originator used by the broadcast.
- Additional Notes: Optional information which can be provided when submitting messages through the SMS API.
- Messaging Route: The messaging route used by the broadcast.
- Total Credits Used: The total number of credits used by the broadcast.
In addition to the above-mentioned information, the total number of messages is also given along with a summarised break-down of the total number of delivery states which belong to the broadcast (e.g. 1/1014 - FAILED).
Delivery Reports
The second half of a broadcast analysis provides information which relates to the individual messages/recipients:
- messageID: The unique number allocated to each individual message within the broadcast.
- customID: The optional custom data which can be provided when using the SMS API.
- Message: The actual message which was sent to the recipient.
- Recipient: The MSISDN of the recipient. This is provided as a link to the SMS Dialogue for that individual number.
- Country: The country to which the recipient belongs.
- Delivery State: The real-time delivery state of the message along with the timestamp of the delivery state.
- Explanation: If, for any reason, a message is not delivered this explains the reason why.
In addition to the above-mentioned information, the delivery reports can be grouped up into similar delivery states. So, for example, messages which were not delivered can be highlighted for further investigation.