[DUG] Sending SMSs

[Bevan Edwards]

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]
>> 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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