# How do you use SMS for delivery notifications?

> SMS delivery notifications keep customers informed at each fulfilment milestone — order confirmed, shipped, out for delivery, delivered — with an optional tracking link and a reply channel to reschedule. SMS is ideal for logistics updates because it is read within minutes and needs no app install, so time-sensitive 'your driver is 10 minutes away' messages actually get seen. Common across e-commerce, retail and logistics; see /solutions/ecommerce-retail.

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- Last reviewed: 2026-07-22
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## Notify at each milestone

Map SMS to the moments that matter: confirmation, dispatch, out-for-delivery, delivered, and failed-delivery. Each is a discrete transactional message the customer expects, so engagement stays high and opt-outs stay low.

## Tracking links done safely

A tracking link is useful but link-bearing texts resemble smishing. Send from a registered, recognizable sender ID and use a consistent branded domain so customers can trust the link. See /answers/what-is-smishing and /answers/how-to-register-sender-id.

## Make it two-way

Let customers reply to reschedule a delivery or leave drop-off instructions, and feed responses back to your logistics system with two-way SMS. See /products/two-way-sms.

## Upgrade rich updates to RCS or WhatsApp

Where the channel is available, RCS or WhatsApp can carry a branded card with a live map, product image and buttons — richer than SMS while SMS stays the universal fallback. See /answers/what-is-rcs-business-messaging and /products/omnichannel.

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