It’s often need to create a bulk sending of short messages (SMS) to inform users about new learnings, activities or bring new users to use your website for the first time. Group SMS sending feature is designed to solve this tasks.

This page provide you a possibility to edit and manage group SMS job parameters. It contains four tabs:

Send information

  • Send name - user-friendly name of the job
  • SMS providers - here you choose SMS provider via you will be send SMSs of this job; SMS providers are setting in the SMS application properties
  • SMS Message - the body of SMS message; please notice the symbols counter on the bottom of the field – if there would be more 160 symbols it will give a red “over” warning
  • Notes - notes for administrators internal use

Recipients

Here you add or remove recipients which will receive this SMS. This could be done by next tools:

  • Standard include/exclude mechanism which allows you to select which group you want to include or which one should to be excluded of the recipients final list
  • You could use advanced XML rules to specify more complex expression for selecting recipients for your job

For reviewing all recipients, which will get your SMS you could use a “Show recipients” button. It will expand a complete list of those users, which falls into conditions that you have been selected.

    Send

    This tab provides you instructions for sending SMS and gives a big “Send now” button to start job. Here is main things while you preparing to send your SMSs:

    • Do not forget to save your job while doing some changes in it’s configuration
    • Preview the SMS using the 'Send test' button above (use a choose recipient number feature to select your own mobile number)
    • Use the 'Show Recipients' button on the recipients tab to check who the SMS will be sent to

    When you are ready click the 'Send Now' button below and the system will start to send out your SMSs. Once the send process starts you can navigate away from this page without affecting your send. If you choose to navigate away from this page you can still view the send results by click on the info button from the email list page.

    If you need to cancel this task, you have to go rapidly to status tab and press “cancel” button.

      Status

      This tab provides a detailed information on SMS sending while it is sending. There is a list of in-progress SMSs which are sending at the moment.

      There is a also “cancel” button on this tab while sending is in progress. Use it to immediate termination of the task.

      Interface of this page also contains several buttons:

      • Save - for saving entire progress
      • Test - for send test SMS (if you choose to specify recipient number you have to provide it’s number)
      • Logs - this button leads you to SMS job details page
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