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Notify starts sending your text messages immediately. Each message is sent to its cell phone carrier, which attempts delivery to the recipient. This process is often almost instantaneous, but can sometimes take a while if a phone is unavailable. The carrier will continue to try to deliver the message for up to 72 hours.
The Notify dashboard provides a high-level view of the number of messages Sent, Pending, Delivered, and Failed. The dashboard data starts to update about five minutes after a message is sent and will continue to update for four hours.
Delivery statuses reflect delivery to a specific cell phone number, not to a person. No status can confirm that a specific person actually received or read the message.
Sometimes Notify receives more detailed information from the carriers on the status of messages, and these can be found in the downloadable reports. Not all carriers provide the same level of detail regarding delivery and some delivery statutes have a slight variation in word choice. Notify includes this information in the reports to provide you as much detail as possible. Remember, for security purposes, detailed information is only available for seven days after a message has been sent.
A text recipient can opt out of receiving text messages from your phone number at any time by responding “STOP” or “QUIT” or one of several other keywords. If they opt out,
Notify.gov does not yet have a way to pull opt-out status and make it available in the UI for agencies to download.
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