About Accounts

SMS Studio communicates with Short Message Entities (SME) in order to exchange SMS messages.

An SME is an entity (e.g. SMS center, SMS gateway, or mobile device) capable of sending and receiving SMS messages.

To access SMEs, SMS Studio uses accounts and connections. Account defines the type and the properties of an SME, while connection defines how to connect to an SME.

SMS Studio supports the following account types:

SIM Card Account - Uses SIM card inserted into the mobile device (phone or modem).
SMPP Account - Connects to an SME through SMPP protocol.
EMI/UCP Account - Connects to an SME through EMI/UCP protocol.
HTTP Account - Connects to an SME through HTTP protocol.
ODBC Account - Uses a database as an SME.
CSP Account - Connects to an SMS Studio application through CSP protocol.
Email Account - Connects to an email server through SMTP and POP3 protocols in order to send and receive email messages.
Loopback Account - Returns back sent messages.
Emulator Account - Emulates an SME.

Additionally, SMS Studio supports the following server account types, used to accept the connections initiated by the client applications:

SMPP Server Account - Accepts a connection from another application through SMPP protocol.
EMI/UCP Server Account - Accepts a connection from another application through EMI/UCP protocol.
CSP Server Account - Accepts a connection from an SMS Studio application through CSP protocol.