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SMS Home Page from the AppSender Details page or the Simple SMS icon on the Dashboard.
SMS Home Page
Options
| Option | Description |
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| Country | Country for Number validation process |
| To | Recipient number or numbers, can be inserted by typing numbers manually - copy and pasting from a list else where or selecting from the contact list. At lease 1 number is required |
| Message | This is your message content - there is a counter to tell you how many messages parts will be sent, what the character encoding and how total characters you have entered. as the Encoding changes from gsm to utf-16 so does the number of characters per message part. In the first part of the message with Encode = gsm you get 160 characters and with uft-16 you get 70. Once you go over this limit the characters per message part change to, gsm = 154 and utf-16 = 67. You cannot use contact field insertion in simple send process are the sending process does not link to the contact records |
| Source Address | Either select none or a select a |
| Source Address Text | If you have set the source address text against your AppSender record it will show under the Source address for selection. We done recommend using this option if you are send electronic commercial messages as your message will not have a reply path. |
| Scheduled | to send a message at time in the future change the default value for Scheduled |
Selecting Contacts
You can search for all contacts or select a filter to search for a subset of contacts. See filters for more deatils.
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Message templates once created can you use on this page and on the Campaign Create page. click on the text of the Template record to add the template text to the Message field.
See See Templates for managing templates
Cut and Paste Numbers
The simple send process has a very clever number cleaning process to the extent that can cut and paste from spread sheet that mostly text and the occasion number an the system will clean out everything except the valid mobile numbers.
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