Message id’s are now also included in your delivery report file, this change is only really relevant for API users, however if you send messages over 160 characters you will now see multiple entries per message (as there were more than one SMS needed to deliver the message).
The message id is the unique identifier of [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Example of a .NET Bulk SMS Gateway / API integration
For more information regarding the bulk sending API click here.
A simple example for sending SMS via a .NET method
Here’s a stand-alone .Net method:
private static string SendSms(string p_userName, string p_password, string p_orig, string p_number, string p_message, bool p_respondInXml) {
StringBuilder requestUrl = new StringBuilder();
requestUrl.Append(“http://www.textmarketer.biz/gateway/“);
requestUrl.Append(“?username=”).Append(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(p_userName));
requestUrl.Append(“&password=”).Append(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(p_password));
requestUrl.Append(“&orig=”).Append(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(p_orig));
requestUrl.Append(“&number=”).Append(p_number);
requestUrl.Append(“&message=”).Append(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(p_message));
if (p_respondInXml) {
requestUrl.Append(“&option=”).Append(“xml”);
}
WebRequest webRequest = [...]
Think of lubricating oil in a can that you can spray and there’s only one brand that leaps to mind…the dependable and versatile old favourite, WD-40.
This amazing stuff seems to have been around for years and almost every household in the land must have a half used can under the sink or in the garage. [...]
Great news! You can now send text messages longer than 160 characters, in fact up to 612 characters which arrive as 1 message on peoples’ phones - using either your Text Marketer Bulk SMS account or SMS Gateway.
I don’t want to send long messages, does it affect me?
Quite simply, no. Apart from some slight changes to the [...]
When constructing the message for your SMS Marketing campaign you should be aware that not all characters are supported by the GSM networks. They have a specific character set that they work to. It shouldn’t be a mjor concern to 99%+ of people as almost all common characters are supported.
For your information here are a [...]
A few months ago we conducted customer research asking if a ‘concatenated text message’ or ‘long message’ (the ability to send bulk text messages containing more that 160 characters but arriving as one message) feature would be useful in our Bulk SMS Software. Around 50% of customers said they would use this feature.
This is quite a major technical [...]
UK’s largest bathroom retailer launches customer text service
Bathstore has chosen Text Marketer’s sms software to launch a new sms alert service for its customers. Customers can opt to receive sms alerts direct to their mobile. The offers aim to drive customers to the store with a range of tempting offers. A recent weekend event [...]
Feature Upgrade
API customers can now send messages up to 612 characters long. If you exceed 160 characters you automatically covert to concatenation sending, this has the following connotations. Each message consists of a 153 character ‘chunk’ (not 160 chars) the extra characters are used to glue the messages together. Therefore a message that is 307 [...]
