Sending Text Messages from Studio

[Steve Farmer]

Hi

+1 for twilio

We use twilio from php and python and it works very well plus it is not 
expensive.

Steve

On 10/8/19 3:26 am, Scotte Meredith wrote:
> There are also providers, like Twillio (https://www.twilio.com/sms), that have an API you can use to send SMS messages directly. It is not free, but is pretty cheap.
>
> I’ve not implemented anything with it, just looked at it and set aside for later reference.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: omnisdev-en [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] On Behalf
>> Of Jeanne Reyes
>> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2019 12:40 PM
>> To: OmnisDev List - English
>> Subject: Sending Text Messages from Studio
>>
>> I'm sending text messages to the company clients via email using smtp
>> server.  So far its been unreliable as some text go thru and others do
>> not.  The Att customers for example do not get them.  Metro, tmobil and
>> others do.
>>
>> This is posing a challenge for me now as we planing to expand to send
>> automatic notifications/confirmation with certain transactions:
>>
>> -Trouble #1  unreliability.  Some get it, some do not
>> -Trouble #2  in order for me to send via smtp server I have to know
>> customer cellphone provider.  Not all the customer on the database have
>> that info.
>>
>> So the question is: Is there another way I can send text messages from
>> studio that does not entitle an email and I dont need to input the
>> provider?  The company that handles the texting for us outside of studio do
>> not need that info.  We only give them a file with the phone numbers in it
>> and they mass send the texts, but I cant use that with what I want to do
>> now.  It has to come from studio.
>>
>> By the way, we are using Studio 6.1  and planning to upgrade to Studio 10
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
>> Jeanne Reyes
>>
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