Mogli Glossary
  • 29 Mar 2024
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Your Go-To Glossary for all things Mogli

ANONYMOUS LEADS

OPTIONAL VARIATION on LEAD records

When someone sends an incoming text to one of your Gateways (outbound phone numbers) and Mogli cannot find an existing record with a matching Mogli Number, a Lead named Anonymous Lead from Mogli will be created.

APPLICATION SETTINGS

TAB

Where Admins can go to configure Contact and Lead merge fields, turn on/off Anonymous Leads, assign the Gateway Mode, and select the Org-wide Default Gateway.

ASYNC TASKS

CUSTOM OBJECT

Stores records for bulk sends to be delivered in batches.

BULK SMS / BULK SMS LIGHTNING

TAB / FUNCTIONALITY

Send a message to multiple recipients at the same time. Send directly to a Campaign, Report, and to any other records on which Mogli is configured.

CARRIER / MESSAGING PARTNER

A communications provider that provides Mogli Gateways and processes Mogli SMS messages.

CONVERSATION VIEW

LIGHTNING COMPONENT available on all Mogli-Configured Objects

A visually interactive display of your last 300 incoming and outgoing messages to and from your recipient (including 1:1 conversations, bulk messages, scheduled messages, and automated conversations)

DEFAULT GATEWAY

CUSTOM FIELD

The outbound phone number your recipient most often receives their text messages from. (Optional to populate)

FORM

CUSTOM OBJECT

The record storing the questions and responses to a survey or automated conversation (Form Template) you’ve created.

FORM TEMPLATE

CUSTOM OBJECT

Allows you to create linear or branching automated surveys and conversations. When someone completes a survey, a Form record is created storing information with all questions and responses.

GATEWAY

CUSTOM OBJECT

An outbound phone number - the numbers you’ll use to send messages to your recipients.

Mogli configures your Gateways with our messaging partner.

INTELLIGENT AREA CODE MATCHING

STANDARD for some plans or ADD-ON FEATURE

Mogli chooses the best phone number from which to send the message according to the recipient’s country code, area code, or previous phone numbers.

Sticky sending using the same number in subsequent sends.

MERGE FIELD

SALESFORCE VARIABLE

A variable you can pull into 1:1 conversations, bulk messages, or SMS Templates that populates a value from any Standard or Custom field.

MESSAGE SEGMENT

CUSTOM FIELD
A custom field on the SMS object that counts the number of message segments a single outbound SMS message consumed.

MOGLI AVATAR URL

CUSTOM FIELD

(In Lightning only) The field which contains a URL of an image to be associated with a recipient within Conversation View. If left blank, the recipient’s initials will display in its place.

MOGLI INBOX

TAB

The one stop shop to view and respond to all of your incoming messages in one place.

MOGLI OPT-OUT

CUSTOM FIELD


The checkbox field on a record which identifies whether the recipient has provided opt-in consent.

When checked, Conversation View is disabled for the record, and users will no longer be able to send the recipient a message.

MOGLI MESSAGING API

FEATURE

An API endpoint hosted on a cloud server which acts as an intermediate layer for processing outgoing bulk messages. It enables faster message throughput, less batch apex jobs in Salesforce, and more reliable bulk sends. Recommended if you are sending via short codes or toll-free numbers, send large volumes of bulk messages, or just like the idea of increased speed and reliability.

MOGLI NUMBER

CUSTOM FIELD


The reformatted Mobile number which is auto-populated by a workflow or flow from the value in the Mobile field.

It is a unique identifier for each Salesforce record.

The automation removes spaces, parentheses, and dashes from the Mobile field, reformatting it like this: +12223334444.


MOGLI NOTIFICATIONS

LIGHTNING COMPONENT in the UTILITY BAR

Allows users to be notified by a blinking component and an audible chime for incoming texts matching their specified criteria.

MOGLI URL

FEATURE
Mogli URL seamlessly integrates with Mogli SMS which enables users to effortlessly create and insert custom short URLs into messages, configure custom domains to ensure brand recognition and SMS carrier compatibility, and provide engagement analytics which includes personalized click tracking.

QUERY STRING

CUSTOM FIELD on the FORM TEMPLATE record

The unique inbound keyword which initiates an automated conversation or survey.

Ex. - Text REVIEW to 555-666-7777 to rate Mogli Theater’s performance of ‘SMS Side Story.’

‘REVIEW’ is the query string.

NOTIFICATION SETTINGS

TAB

The tab where all notification preferences live for each user.

QUESTION TEMPLATE

CUSTOM OBJECT

This record stores a script of all potential questions/statements in your Form Template.


QUESTION RESPONSE

CUSTOM OBJECT on the FORM record

The record storing responses to specific questions from a survey or automated conversation (Form Template), contextualizing responses so you can report, dashboard, and run automations off of certain answers.

SETUP MOGLISMS

TAB / BATCH PROCESS

The tab to set our batch process interval, which can be set anywhere from 1-10 minutes. When the batch runs, incoming SMS records will be associated with Standard and Custom Objects. Confirm the length of your batch process by going to Setup > Scheduled Jobs.

When the Mogli team configures, your batch is automatically set to run at 5-minute intervals.

SMS TEMPLATE

CUSTOM OBJECT

Pre-created, canned messages, readily available from a drop-down menu in Conversation View or Bulk SMS/Bulk SMS Lightning. They can initiate an outbound survey or automated conversation (Form Template). Alternatively, they can simply be sent by themselves to quickly share a single message.

For every Form Template, an SMS Template must be created with the exact text from the First Question.

SMS TEMPLATE FOLDER

CUSTOM OBJECT


Organize your SMS Templates into folders that are accessible within the Conversation View and the Bulk SMS Lightning tab. Standard Salesforce visibility rules can be applied.
SUBSCRIPTION CENTER

FEATURE OF LIGHTNING CONVERSATION VIEW
Opt in/out functionality at the Gateway Level. Able to be set by inbound keywords, data loads, or manual user update.





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