[DUG] Sending SMSs

[Alister Christie]

In the past I've used either Skype (via COM automation), which I had a
number of issues of messages just getting eaten and not delivered (might be
solved now), and SMS Gateway on android which has a number of APIs (I used
HTTP) and will allow you to send through a handset - and yes Spark will
have a problem with you doing this if you are sending large numbers of
messages - we weren't sending huge volumes and somewhat got around the
issue by adding a random delay between messages, but we still got some
warning txt messages.

Alister

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:34 AM Rohit Gupta <rohit at cfl.co.nz> wrote:

> Thanks Bevan,
>
> we had reduced our shortlist to Clickatell, but the prices they quoted
> were higher (9c for NZ and 6c for Oz).  So we will get back to them.
>
> Rohit
>
>
> On 6/05/2016 00:00, Bevan Edwards wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I use Clickatell and have done for many years.  The interface is
> reasonably simple and includes a number of APIs, including HTTP, FTP,
> SMTP, SMPP, COM, XML, SOAP, and REST.
>
> They work on a credit system - you buy a number of credits (between 400
> and 500,000 at a time) at about $NZ0.073 per credit (at the moment, but
> subject to exchange rates).  The price decreases if you purchase 10,000
> or more credits at a once, down to $NZ0.057 per credit for 250,000 or
> more in one purchase.  If you setup a bundle (automatic top up of
> message credit balance every month), you can get a discount (currently 11%).
>
> Sending to VFNZ/2Degrees is 0.8 credits and Spark is 3.0 credits - so
> $0.059 to $0.22 per message (based on $0.073), depending on which
> network you are sending to.
>
> There is a Developer Central interface which includes summary and
> detailed reports.
>
> There are options for long numbers (India, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden,
> UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, USA, Australia) and shortcodes
> (Namibia, South Africa, UK, and Canada) for receiving messages.  For NZ
> there is the option to use a Danish long number, which is supported by
> Spark and VFNZ.
> Received messages (via this NZ/Danish option) uses 0.3 credits per message.
>
> You can use a variety of options for the "Sender" of the messages, but
> all senders have to be registered with Clickatell (and you may need to
> verify why you need/want to use a non-numeric sender).
>
> I hope that helps!  :D
>
> Regards,
>
> Bevan
>
>
> On 5/05/2016 5:32 p.m., Stephen Barker wrote:
>
> I put this feature into one of my apps a couple of years ago and used
> Essendex - based in Melbourne, and they are around Aus 10 cents a text.
> I do an HTTP post to their server from memory.
>
> Nobody has actually used it much yet but there is renewed interest so I'm
> also looking at other provider options. A couple of months ago I came up
> with this short list but haven't done anything further:
>
> smsglobal 13c
> twilio 8c
> clickatell 5.7c
>
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rohit Gupta [mailto:rohit at cfl.co.nz <rohit at cfl.co.nz>]
> Sent: Monday, 2 May 2016 3:08 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: [DUG] Sending SMSs
>
> We are using Message Media to send texts from our applications.  But
> they are very expensive.  What are other people using ?
>
> Regards
>
> Rohit
>
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