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Use case

Keep a searchable, exportable business SMS archive.

Build a business SMS archive: import the inbox and sent history already on your phones, merge it with your live messages, and retain or export it.

Why teams archive

  • Business conversations live on staff phones and vanish when a device is lost or wiped.
  • Auditors, disputes, and policies require a retrievable record of what was sent and received.
  • Sent history from the phone's own app is invisible to any tool that only sees messages going forward. Only an import can recover it, and SMSKit does not capture texts sent from the phone's own app after that.

How SMSKit fits

On the Standard plan, a one-shot opt-in import (up to 90 days and 5,000 messages, one per 24 hours) pulls existing inbox and sent history into your account. The unified timeline tags each message by origin, and bulk export (NDJSON/CSV) and the pull API make it retrievable. Retention is 30 days on Standard, and you can delete imported and received messages.

Explore archiving
Example
bash 
# Export your account's full message timeline for compliance/backup
curl "https://api.smskit.cloud/api/v1/archive/export?from=2026-01-01&format=csv" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: sk_live_your_key" -o sms-archive.csv