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# Guide for Tracking Statuses Like Amazon

easypost

May 17, 2016

We constantly get customers wanting to offer shipping services just like Amazon. Obviously, many of the services provided by Amazon are costly. But many of them aren’t. One of these low hanging fruit is SMS Tracking Notifications.

We’ve written a guide about how to send SMS Tracking Notifications to your customers, just like Amazon. This is as simple as using our our [Tracking API with Webhooks](/content/tracking-api/index.html) and Twilio. This way you can update your customers each time a shipment status changes.

Better yet, we’ve even written all the code you need to get started. Now you can be up and running with SMS Tracking Notifications within minutes!

[SMS Tracking Notifications Guide](/content/sms-tracking-tutorial/index.html)

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