An SMS gateway lets you send SMS messages by providing a relay to a telecom network. Synerise can integrate with SMS gateways and help you organize and effectively manage SMS communication. 

You can integrate Synerise with the following gateways:

- SMSAPI,
- Smsbiz,
- Materna,
- Infobip,
- TideMobile,
- [Twilio](/docs/settings/tool/integrating-sms-gateways/twilio),
- MessageFlow - This integration allows you to use an in-built feature of shortening links. Synerise passes a message with the link in a long form to the gateway and the gateway sends it as a shortened URL. To use this feature, you must enable it by switching the **Short URL mechanism** toggle on.

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  Synerise allows [shortening links](/docs/campaign/SMS/creating-SMS-template#short-links) too.

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## Enable integration
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1. Go to <img src="/api/docs/image/54176ad07f146575310749eba44b7c2f42c1b327/icons/settings-icon.svg" alt="Settings icon" class="icon"> **Settings > Apps & Services**.
2. Find the SMS gateway you want to configure and next to the name of the gateway, click **Show**.
3. Click **Add connection**.
4. Switch the **Enable connection** toggle on.  
3. Enter the credentials of the gateway (available on your gateway account).
4. Confirm by clicking **Apply**.

After enabling the integration with the SMS gateway, [create an SMS account](/docs/campaign/SMS/configuring-sms-gateway#create-sms-account) from which the text messages will be sent to your recipients.

## Create SMS account
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5. Go to <img src="/api/docs/image/54176ad07f146575310749eba44b7c2f42c1b327/icons/settings-icon.svg" alt="Settings icon" class="icon"> **Settings > SMS > Add SMS account**.
6. In the **Account name** field, enter the name of the account. It will be displayed on the list of SMS accounts.
7. In the **From name (SenderId)** field, enter the name (alias) that will be displayed as the name of sender in the inbox of the recipient. 
    
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   Make sure the gateway plan covers this feature.

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8. From the SMS provider list, select the SMS gateway.
9. Confirm by clicking **Save**.  
   **Result**: The new account is visible on the list in **Settings > Configuration > SMS**.

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   You can add only one SMS account with a given provider.

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Now, you can [create a template of SMS](/docs/campaign/SMS/creating-SMS-template) and [send your message](/docs/campaign/SMS/sending-sms).