Built for North America
Mobile numbers across Canada and the United States, on the national carriers in both countries. One price, whichever side of the border.
Text messaging for Canada and the United States
Primal Connect is a REST API for sending and receiving SMS with mobile phones across North America. One HTTP call per message, JSON in and out, running on twenty years of carrier infrastructure.
Free for the first 10,000 messages a month. No card required.
What it is
One endpoint, one token, one call
Post a message to an HTTPS endpoint and we deliver it to the handset. Replies come back to your callback URL, or wait in a queue for you to collect. There is nothing to install.
Integrated in a day
A single POST sends a message. Most teams have it wired into their application in an afternoon.
Carrier-grade underneath
Runs on Amazon Cloud, on top of the billing and messaging platform Primal Technologies has operated for twenty years.
Send your first message with one command. Sign up, take the
token from your welcome email, and post to
https://app.primalconnect.com/api/sms with
4165483344, the default
sending number every account has, as the from number. The
API reference has a curl example you can
paste straight into a terminal.
Use cases
What people build with it
Thirteen patterns we see most often. Every one of them is a single API call.
Appointments and reminders
No-shows are expensive. A reminder text goes straight to the customer and gets read, without the staff hours that phoning costs.
Read more →Alerts and notices
Weather warnings, security alerts, delayed schedules. Anything that matters in the next hour is better as a text than an email.
Read more →Verification codes
Confirm a phone number at sign-up with a one-time code. Stops fake registrations and leaves you with numbers you know are real.
Read more →