RCS for Business Messaging
with QuickSMS
RCS elevates traditional SMS by providing a richer, more interactive messaging experience.
Say Goodbye to Plain Text,
Build Immersive Experiences
Rich Communication Services (RCS) is the evolution of SMS. RCS transforms the traditional text message into a dynamic, app-like experience, with features like:
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Upgrade your SMS to rich media messaging. RCS for business lets you embed high-resolution images, PDF tickets, video guides, and even boarding passes, all in a single branded conversation. No more links. Just visual, secure engagement.
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RCS allows you to send calendar invites, appointment confirmations, and event reminders directly into a customer’s native calendar. From open days to virtual consultations, boost attendance with interactive, tap-to-add events that beat SMS for engagement.
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Drive instant action with RCS interactive buttons. Customers can tap to confirm, reply, buy, or navigate, without needing to call or visit a website. It’s faster than email, more engaging than SMS, and perfectly suited for customer support, retail, or school use cases.
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Unlike SMS, RCS gives you full delivery and read receipts, so you know your message landed and was seen. Perfect for time-sensitive alerts, security codes, or school closure notifications. No more guessing, just guaranteed insight.
Build Trust with
Verified Branded
Messaging
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Your brand is verified directly by UK mobile networks, giving customers confidence that they’re coming from a legitimate source and preventing fraudster impersonating your business.
Unlike over-the-top chat apps, RCS is rooted in the mobile ecosystem, where carriers are trusted to protect their customers.
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Customers instinctively trust the verified tick, thanks to its widespread use across platforms like banks, social media, and commerce.
With RCS, that trusted symbol confirms your brand’s authenticity at a glance.
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Your logo, colours, and business name appear front and centre, unlike SMS, where plain text can look generic or suspicious.
Branded messaging reassures customers, increases engagement, and enhances recognition over time.
Use Cases: Trusted by
Every Major Industry
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Appointment reminders,
Secure patient communications,
Test result notifications.
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Citizen alerts and engagement,
Emergency broadcasts,
Internal staff messaging.
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Promotional SMS campaigns,
Cart abandonment recovery,
Shipping and order confirmations.
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School closures and emergency updates,
Student and parent notifications,
Exam timetables and event messages.
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Driver coordination and dispatch,
Delivery notifications',
Real-time ETA updates.
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Booking Confirmations & Trip Reminders
Live Travel Disruption Alerts
Upsell: Seat Upgrades, Tours & Local Deals
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Fraud Alerts with Verified Branding
One-Time Passwords (OTPs) and Login Verifications
Loan Application Updates
Personalised Offers and Pre-Approved Credit
Bill Reminders and Payment Links
Your Trusted Google RCS Partner
QuickSMS is proud to be a Google Partner for RCS Business Messaging (RBM) – helping brands unlock rich, interactive mobile messaging experiences. As a leading provider of enterprise messaging solutions, we're paving the way for the future of mobile engagement.
RCS APIs Built for Developers
Build fast with developer-first APIs for RCS. Test in a secure sandbox, deploy with clean code libraries, and track everything via webhooks and real-time analytics. Designed to keep you building and not troubleshooting.
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QuickSMS provides fully open, developer-friendly API documentation.
No login required.
You'll find clear authentication steps, sample requests and responses, error codes, and integration guides for SMS, RCS, and WhatsApp Business.
Our docs are designed to help developers send their first message in minutes, with language-specific examples and real-world use cases. -
Get started fast with QuickSMS.
Sign up, generate your API key, and send your first SMS or WhatsApp message in just a few minutes.
Our streamlined onboarding process, sandbox environment, and copy-paste code samples reduce setup friction and get you building faster. -
QuickSMS offers a secure sandbox environment to help you test API requests without sending live messages or incurring costs.
Use the sandbox to simulate SMS, RCS, and WhatsApp messaging flows, validate your payloads, and ensure everything works before going live.
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Handling mission critical messaging with complete failover and the power to process millions of requests 24 hours per day 7 days per week. Handling up-to 70,000 API requests per second
Unlock Higher ROI
with RCS Messaging
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On average, RCS is 13% cheaper than traditional SMS when sending longer or rich messages. Unlike SMS, which charges per 160 characters, RCS supports unlimited text, images, videos, and buttons at a single price. For high-volume senders, the savings stack up fast.
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RCS delivers higher open and engagement rates than SMS. With branded sender IDs, read receipts, image previews, and tap-to-reply buttons, customers are more likely to interact and respond than with plain text messages. Engagement metrics for RCS often exceed 40–60% click-through rates, making it ideal for alerts, promotions, or two-way conversations.
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RCS makes buying effortless. Integrated CTAs, product carousels, and in-message checkout options guide customers from message to purchase in seconds. Studies show customers are up to 25% more likely to complete a purchase when engaged through rich messaging experiences like RCS, compared to SMS or email.
RCS FAQs
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No. RCS (Rich Communication Services) is a global messaging standard, just like SMS.
While Google currently provides the RCS platform for mobile networks (and Apple has agreed to support the standard), RCS itself is not a Google product. It’s an industry-wide standard adopted by mobile networks, handset manufacturers, and messaging vendors worldwide.
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There isn’t one. UK mobile networks felt the term Basic undervalued RCS, so they chose to use Branded instead. It’s simply a naming choice, the technology is the same.
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With QuickSMS, yes.
Branded RCS messages are cheaper than SMS.
Single RCS messages cost more than SMS, but they include rich features like buttons, images, and videos.
If your SMS goes beyond 160 characters (and splits into multiple parts), RCS usually works out cheaper as well, since RCS supports much longer messages in a single send.
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An RCS agent is just the technical name for the sender of RCS messages.
As a business you can have one agent or multiple agents, depending on how you want to structure your messaging.
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Each UK mobile network has its own process, but the goal is the same: to verify every RCS agent so that customers know they are receiving messages from genuine businesses.
This prevents spoofing and helps protect customers from fraud.
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Brand Assure is a third-party vetting company used by BT/EE. They carry out thorough checks to confirm that businesses are legitimate. You may receive emails from them asking you to confirm that QuickSMS is authorised to send RCS messages on your behalf.
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RBM stands for Rich Business Messaging. It’s simply another name that Google has used for business messaging over RCS. Today, the preferred term is RCS for Business.
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Not necessarily. In the UK, Google provides the RCS platform directly, so global providers no longer have an advantage in terms of connectivity.
With QuickSMS, you get the same direct connectivity, combined with more personal service and dedicated UK support.
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Figures are often overstated.
With QuickSMS, you can expect around 65% of your messages to be delivered over RCS today.
This is set to increase to the low 70% range once Vodafone enables RCS on iPhone, which we expect in the second half of 2025.
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