Introducing SMS Polls & Messaging Integration — Engage Your Audience Like Never Before

We're excited to announce two brand-new features that bring real-time audience engagement straight to your dashboard: Messaging Integration and SMS Polls.

Whether you're running a news site, a community page, or any content platform, now you can reach your audience directly on their phones and collect verified responses instantly.

Connect with Message Owl

Setting up is simple. Head to your Site Settings, enter your Message Owl API key, and you're connected. Once linked, you'll see your connection status, SMS credit balance, and approved sender IDs, all at a glance.

No more juggling between platforms. Your messaging setup lives right where you manage everything else.

Create Polls That People Actually Respond To

With SMS Polls, you can:

• Ask a question with up to 10 answer options

• Collect responses verified by OTP, one vote per person, no duplicates

• View results in real-time from your polls dashboard

Creating a poll takes seconds. Write your question, add your options, toggle it active, and you're live. Need to pause? Toggle it off without losing a single vote.

We've also built in smart safeguards once people start voting, answer options are locked so your data stays clean and trustworthy.

How Voting Works

When someone submits a response, they'll receive a verification SMS with a one-time code. Once they enter it, their vote is confirmed and counted. This keeps your results accurate and ensures every response is tied to a real, verified phone number.

Built for You

Full RTL and Dhivehi language support is baked in, so your polls feel native to your audience. And with image and description support, your polls can be as rich or as simple as you need them to be.

Get Started

1. Go to Site Settings and connect your Message Owl account

2. Head to the new Polls section in your sidebar

3. Create your first poll and start collecting verified responses

No complicated setup, no third-party dashboards just a clean, integrated experience built for your audience.