Bulk
Bulk SMS works about the same as our bulk email feature.
New
When creating a new bulk text message you are just asked to come up with a name.
Setup
Body: The SMS content
This text area supports variables.
The event carries the responsibility to make a guess on the length of the message and thereby how many message segments will be sent. To help calculate, use this tutorial.
Send at: The actual date and hour when this message should be sent.
Every event company can send a maximum of 1 message per hour.
Filter: Pick the filter you want to use. Every result in that filter with a working phone number will receive this message. This feature makes it very easy to fine grain who the recipients will be.
Sending
After you have created and finalised your message you will need to request approval before the platform will send it as we do not allow any marketing via our communication module. Click the green button to request approval. Our team will approve or reject the request within maximum 24 hours. Most of the time it will be approved within the hour.
Approved
If your message is approved it will be added to the sending queue and will automatically start sending on the hour you specified in the "Send at" value. This process might not start exactly on the hour (0 minutes), but can take up to 3 minutes to start sending.
Rejected
If your message is rejected, you will receive an email at your personal email address informing you of this with a personal message why it has been rejected. You can edit the message, resolve the issues and request approval again.
Recipients
After the message has finished sending you can see a list of recipients and the exact message they received. Open up a recipient to view more data:
Receiver: A link to the receiver of this message
To phone number: The phone number + country we've sent the message to
Body: The processed message content we sent
Sent at: The exact timestamp when the message was sent
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