About Deliver and transactional message

A transactional message is a single message sent in response to a specific, predetermined transaction detected in your business systems. Unica provides the Deliver Transactional messaging Service (TMS) as a hosted web service to process transactional messages. Digital marketers work with application developers to integrate corporate transaction management systems with the Deliver TMS.

Note: Deliver supports the following channels along with email. In this guide, the term message applies to all channels.
  • SMS
  • WhatsApp
  • Push

Sending transactional message lets you respond automatically to specific customer or customer-related activities with a personalized message. Transactional messages tend to have higher open rates than other types of marketing message. Message recipients are more likely to open a message related to a transaction they recognize or expect than they are to open an unsolicited message.

You can use any event that you can detect in your business systems to prompt a transactional message. For example, you can send a transactional message when an individual subscribes to your monthly newsletter or requests information in response to an digital marketing campaign.

The following topics provide an overview of the Deliver TMS and the roles played by digital marketers and application developers when using transactional message.