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5 Marketplace Checks for Startup SMS Outage API Batch Alerts

Short answer: keep the seller-notification template, its version history, and suppression decisions in your application domain; let the SMS provider own transport. That split costs more engineering time than storing message text in a provider console, but it lets a startup switch delivery paths during an outage without silently changing what a new-order alert means. The API checklist follows from…

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1. When SMS delivery is unavailable, the template for the message remains under the control of the application, not the SMS provider. This allows a startup to switch delivery methods during an outage without changing the meaning of different types of alerts. The system should have a stable way to render the template, record its version and a digest along with the notification, and keep this template consistent across all delivery paths.

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