# Zalo

Zalo is a communication channel for businesses, press, and government agencies that are based in Vietnam to convey information and communicate with customers.

Use Zalo Notification Service (ZNS) to send customer-centric and personalized notifications, alerts, and reminders from your Zalo Official Account. Example: booking confirmation, banking transaction alert, online order status update, and payment reminder.

Infobip provides you the required services to communicate with customers through Zalo.

## Available solutions

For one-way communication, use Zalo Notification Service (ZNS) to send informative messages using pre-approved templates. ZNS is available over [API](https://www.infobip.com/docs/api/channels/zalo) and [Broadcast](https://www.infobip.com/docs/broadcast).

## Features

One-way communication  
Send personalized notifications and reminders.

Zalo-verified Official Account  
Create a branded and verified profile for your business.

Rich content  
Create messages containing accented characters and rich formatting such as tables, images, and call-to-action (CTA) buttons.

Low-cost messaging  
Send notifications at a low cost and pay only for messages that are delivered successfully.

Failover  
Add SMS as a failover option to make sure that customers receive your messages.

## Technical specifications

Zalo Notification Service (ZNS) supports MSISDN (phone numbers). The Infobip standalone Zalo API enables you to use ZNS to send notifications to Zalo phone numbers. The connection to Infobip services uses firewalled in-house servers or API connections.

The advantage of using Zalo over API is that it enables you to have a failover in place if Zalo messages do not reach your customers. You can set up SMS as a fallback option to make sure that important communications are delivered to your customers if the customers are not connected to the internet or do not have the Zalo app installed.