Emergency alerts
Quickly inform citizens and employees about incidents, send crucial updates, and provide live tracking when it matters most.
Trusted by over 150,000 brands worldwide
Reach everyone
Send critical updates to any device at a moment’s notice.
Reach thousands in seconds with mass text alerts.
Provide clear instructions to guide people to safety.
Coordinate responses
Work together in a crisis. Keep your entire emergency team on the same page.
Mobilize response teams with a single click.
Share live updates to coordinate efforts on the ground.
Track message delivery and engagement in real-time.
Automate alerts
Be ready for emergencies with pre-built templates and automated workflows.
Create message templates for any scenario.
Trigger alerts automatically based on emergency data.
Launch complex notification flows in just a few clicks.
“Sinch provided our utility customers with a scalable, auditable platform for delivering high volume, critical proactive notifications for outage, billing, and demand response.”
Use cases
Leader in multichannel messaging
Drive awareness, keep citizens and constituents in the know, and build public trust through public communication powered by text messaging.
Integrate messaging with your entire tech stack, with over 85 integrations across major email tools and business software.
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Features
“We trust Sinch to handle our messaging needs, including high deliverability, smooth implementation, support, and data security.”
FAQs
An emergency text alert system allows businesses to send real-time text notifications during urgent or timely situations. These systems are used to communicate critical information like safety instructions, operational changes, or system outages to employees, customers, or partners.
Text alerts provide immediate reach and high visibility, even when email or app notifications fail. They’re essential for ensuring employee safety, minimizing downtime, and maintaining trust during events like power outages, security breaches, or natural disasters.
Businesses upload contact lists into a texting platform, draft a message, and send it instantly to all recipients. Some systems offer features like templates, automated triggers, and delivery reports to streamline urgent communications.
Yes, text messaging has a 98% open rate and messages are typically read within 3 minutes. Unlike email or push notifications, SMS doesn’t rely on internet access or app installations—making it highly reliable in critical scenarios.
Yes. Many emergency alert systems include automation features such as keyword-based triggers, pre-built templates, and escalation workflows that send follow-up messages if no response is detected.
Anyone in your contact database (employees, customers, contractors, or suppliers) can receive emergency alerts, provided they’ve opted in. Some platforms also support segmentation to send alerts to specific locations, teams, or roles.
Yes. Most enterprise-grade platforms offer encrypted messaging, access controls, and audit trails. They are designed to comply with privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, or CCPA where applicable.
Emergency text alerts are widely used in industries like:
• Healthcare for staffing or lockdown notifications.
• Education for campus closures or active threat alerts.
• Retail for supply chain disruptions.
• Tech for server outages or cybersecurity threats.
• Construction & manufacturing for site safety communications.
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