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Turn messages into interactive customer experiences with RCS
RCS Business Messaging

Turn messages into interactive customer experiences with RCS

Rich Communication Services (RCS) combines the global reach of SMS with the rich features of modern messaging apps. Verified sender identity, high-resolution images, interactive buttons, and read receipts, all delivered natively on every phone without an app to download.

What is RCS? Why brands are embracing it?

RCS is the next evolution of messaging. It upgrades traditional SMS and RMS text messages into richer, more interactive experiences inside the phone’s native messaging app. With RCS, brands can send images, carousels, suggested replies, file attachments, and one-tap actions that help customers quickly explore information or take the next steps.

RCS also brings experiences people expect from modern messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram, including read receipts, typing indicators, emojis, and richer media. Because it works directly within the phone’s messaging app and is supported by many devices and carriers worldwide, RCS allows brands to reach a broad audience while delivering more engaging messages.

Capabilities

The features that make RCS worth paying attention to

Personalized communication

RCS removes the character limits and plain-text constraints of SMS so every message can be as rich and relevant as the moment calls for, triggered by real account events rather than campaign schedules.

  • Send longer messages without character limits or awkward truncation

  • Include high-resolution images, video and audio in the message itself

  • Trigger messages from real billing, payment and service events automatically

  • Tailor content to each customer's account situation, not a segment average

Brand consistency

RCS messages arrive with your brand already visible before a customer opens them. Every interaction reinforces who you are and builds the recognition that makes customers more likely to act.

  • Display your brand logo, name and colors in the message header

  • Arrive as a recognizable brand identity, not an unknown number

  • Maintain consistent visual standards across every RCS communication

  • Increase open rates through familiarity before the message is even read

Sender verification and trust

Every business RCS sender is verified before a message is sent. Customers see a confirmed checkmark that tells them the message is genuinely from your brand, not a spoofed sender.

  • All senders registered and verified through the GSMA Universal Profile standard

  • Verified checkmark displayed to customers on every message

  • Reduce hesitation driven by phishing and spoofing concerns

  • Build the trust that turns opens into action, especially for payment and account messages

Measuring impact and analytics

RCS delivers the engagement data SMS cannot. Every message produces a clear picture of how customers responded and what they did next.

  • Track delivery confirmation, open rates and read receipts per message

  • Measure button click-through rates to see exactly what drove action

  • Connect engagement data to downstream outcomes like payments and conversions

  • Use performance data to optimize timing, content and channel mix over time

Benefits

Drive higher customer engagement with RCS messaging

Consumers are drawn to rich, eye-catching content. RCS makes this possible by supporting high-resolution images, videos, and interactive elements directly in the messaging inbox. These capabilities help brands create more engaging conversations and guide customers from message to action within a single interaction. Improve customer engagement with feature-rich RCS.

Higher open rates

Driven by branded sender profiles and verified credentials customers recognize and trust.

Read receipts

Gives businesses visibility into exactly who engaged with a message, when and what action they took.

App-like functionality

Reduces customer effort so responses and payments happen in seconds, not minutes.

CSG Xponent

Cut through the digital noise and drive customer action

Delivering messages is one thing. Knowing which message, for which customer, triggered by what they just did, is what makes them land. Connect your communications to real-time intelligence and turn every send into a result.

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