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Overview
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) prohibits telemarketing, automated and pre-recorded calls from calling consumers without their permission. TCPA allows consumers to sue and collect damages from companies for non-compliant calls and texts.
Check with your legal counsel to ensure that your opt-out methods are TCPA compliant. Read here to know more information on the Do-Not-Call List.
Aloware admins can enable an option to automatically opt-out contacts from SMS until they submit a specific form, which will manually opt-in.
Screenshot of a Non-TCPA Approved Contact's Communication details.
Preventing Messaging to Non-TCPA Approved Contacts
Aloware includes a setting that allows the admin to enable or disable SMS delivery to Non-TCPA Approved Contacts. To do this,
Navigate to Accounts > Contact Settings
Enable the "Prevent Messaging to Non-TCPA Approved Contacts" Option
What happens when this option is enabled?
Enabling the "Prevent Messaging to Non-TCPA Approved Contacts" option will
Prevent messages from being sent to TCPA numbers. Messaging function is automatically disabled.
By default, all contacts are set to No. It does not allow agents to change the contact's TCPA Approved Status.
Read How do contacts change their TCPA status to approve to know more.