Many banks offer notifications for offline transactions too. I get an SMS for every charge.
In these cases your issuer will learn about these transactions when the nightly batch job finishes. I don't think you want to get an SMS at that time.
Even if the authorisation is successful the final transaction may not happen, may happen at a different time or may happen over a different transaction amount.
Honestly I have no idea why I got downvoted.
(And we actually have problems when visiting USA because some of our banks issue credit card with numbers printed instead of embossed.)