Sending a message

Routing plans

You’ll need to create a routing plan to decide how messages will be sent to your recipients.

Setting up a routing plan can make your messages more effective and sometimes lower messaging costs.

You can set up routing plans to:

  • send messages in a cascade
  • use specific message templates for different groups of recipients
  • stop sending messages to a recipient when a channel is successful

Message cascades

A message cascade allows you to message a recipient with different channels in the order you choose. You can set up primary and secondary message cascades in your routing plan.

Primary cascades

Use primary message cascades to send a message with a different channel as a fallback if a primary channel fails.

Secondary cascades

Use a secondary message cascades to send a message with another channel at the same time as your primary channel. For example, sending a text message at the same time as an email. You cannot fallback to another channel with secondary cascades.