Business SMS Archival
Never lose a business text again.
Back up the SMS history already on your phones, merge it with everything you send through SMSKit, and keep one searchable, exportable record — in your own isolated account.
Your gateway sends and receives going forward. Archival captures what came before — the inbox and sent messages already on the phone, including the business texts sent from its own messaging app — and keeps them with your live history as one two-way timeline you can search, retain, and export.
How it works
From the phone's history to a record you own.
Opt-in, idempotent, and entirely under your control.
Opt in on the phone
On a paired phone, tap "Archive existing messages." A clear disclosure explains exactly what leaves the device, and you choose how far back to import.
We import the history
The app reads the phone's existing inbox and sent folder and uploads it in the background — idempotently, so re-runs and overlapping ranges never duplicate a message.
It lands in your account
Imported messages join your live and SMSKit-sent messages in one two-way timeline, inside your account's own isolated database — never pooled with anyone else's.
Search, retain, export
Browse and search the inbox, pull the unified timeline over the API, and export to NDJSON or CSV for compliance, backup, or migration.
What you get
A real archive, not just a log.
Everything you need to back up, search, retain, and hand over your business SMS.
Import existing history
Back up the inbox and sent messages already on the phone — including business texts sent from the phone's native app, which no live capture can ever see after the fact.
Unified two-way timeline
Live inbound, SMSKit-sent, and imported messages merge per contact, each tagged with its origin — so you always know what SMSKit sent versus what the phone sent.
Bulk export (NDJSON / CSV)
Export your whole timeline for compliance, backup, or migration — newline-delimited JSON by default, CSV on request, filtered by date range.
Pull API
GET /api/messages and /api/archive/export expose the same data programmatically behind your API key — paginated and filterable by peer, direction, origin, and date.
Names, not just numbers
A contacts store resolves peer numbers to names across the inbox, archive, and API — uploaded in bulk from the dashboard or API, or imported from the phone.
Retention & deletion
Archived data follows your plan's retention window and is deletable per-record or in bulk — your data, in your isolated account, under your control.
Yours to take
Export the whole record in one call.
Bulk-export to NDJSON or CSV, or pull the unified timeline programmatically — filtered by contact, direction, origin, and date. Your data leaves as easily as it came in.
# Export your account's full message timeline (live + sent + imported)
curl "https://api.smskit.cloud/api/archive/export?from=2026-01-01&format=csv" \
-H "X-Api-Key: sk_live_your_key" -o sms-archive.csvStart archiving in five minutes.
Pair a phone, opt into archiving, and keep a searchable record of every business text — free to start.