Sending Text Messages from Studio

[Steve Farmer]

Hi

I noticed Twilio have just announced "sendgrid" which includes an email 
-> sms gateway

Steve

On 11/8/19 2:19 am, Bryan Brodie wrote:
> I agree re twilio and php.
>
> Not sent SMS from Omnis but with php, it would be super simple to create
> API to do this.
>
> From: Steve Farmer <hts at hts.com.au>
>> Subject: Re: Sending Text Messages from Studio
>> 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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