SMS Version Notification Templates

If your company uses the SMS (TXT) notification feature, the template section provides a text area to create or edit the SMS version for the notification.

Job seekers and/or users who elect to receive notifications via TXT message will receive their notifications in this format.

Merge codes are permitted in the TXT version of a notification; however, the character count does not take into consideration the number of characters in the value that will replace the merge code (for example, [selected_time] or [candidate_full_name]). System data replaces merge codes when the message is delivered to the recipient. Merged data may cause the message to exceed the maximum 140-character limit and result in multiple sent messages.

While the character and message counters cannot predict the length of merged data, you can see the character and message count with any merge codes, which is helpful when constructing the TXT version of a notification.

Note:

URLs generated from the merge codes are reformatted as “tiny” URLs in the interest of the 140-character message limit.

For example, an SMS version of a notification in the template field may read as: “An account has been created for you at [company_name]: [action_url]”

On the mobile phone of the job seeker or user who is receiving the notification, the message will read as: “An account has been created for you at [company_name]: [action_url]”.