DLT
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is a block-chain based registration system. According to TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), telemarketers have to be registered in the DLT platform. It is being issued in the public interest to control the SMS spam from various marketing firms. We are required to register with TRAI. With the updated rules, whoever wants to send promotional or transactional SMS to their customers needs to be DLT registered.
Complete DLT registration process in 4 steps
DLT Phase 1: Entity Registration
A Business unit, Company, Legally Recognised Institution or Person engaged in business or service who would like to send communications to customers or intended recipients through SMS or voice call through a registered telemarketer.
DLT Phase 2: Sender id registration
Messages are classified into Promotional, Transactional, Service Explicit, and Service Implicit. Entities need to register all their headers on the platform. Every header gets a unique Header ID that is shared across other DLT platforms seamlessly.
Upload registered sender id, templates on Nettyfish Portal
Once the templates are registered on DLT portal, it has to be uploaded on Nettyfish portal with PE ID and template id. For more details: click here.
DLT Phase 3: Template registration
Templates are created for commercial communication
and as per TRAI guidelines all the principle entities
needs to register their templates before sending
commercial communication.
DLT Phase 4: Consent template registration
Consent Template is used for taking customer's permission before sending them promotional SMS. If you are sending SMS only from the Service Implicit route, then you just need to submit a Content Template on the DLT portal.
Send SMS
Login to Nettyfish SMS portal using your credentials. On logging in, you can use compose, dynamic, group, API SMS as per your requirement and check instant delivery report
COMPLETE DLT REGISTRATION MANUAL FOR SMARTPING: https://smartping.live/User_Manual_VMIPL.pdf
Frequently asked questions
DLT keeps the record of all the SMS transactions by operators. As per TRAI regulations, DLT is mandatory for all business to send SMS
Sender id is a 6-character word that represents your entity. SMS will be received by the recipient from sender id. Every sender id should be related to your entity and should be registered on DLT
Template is a SMS content to be registered on DLT portal by every entity who wants to send multiple SMS to huge number of customers or prospects.
There is no format, however there is an option to select variable insertion on content where few words in a content can vary.Toggle Content
There can be 30 characters in the place of variable.
Template name is the heading that describes purpose of SMS content