Google Contacts SMS Integration – Send an SMS to your Google Contacts Database

How to Integrate Google Contacts with Text Marketer’s SMS Platform

Simply synchronise contacts in your Google Contacts database and quickly send them an SMS message.

Google Contacts is a centralised place for all your contacts (what is Google Contacts?) – email, phone, mobile and many other details. It is in ‘the cloud’ which means whenever a contact’s details change, your other systems will change too.

This means you can use Google Contacts as your central database and then your Text Marketer account will always be up to date with the latest information and also offers you the ability to filter by the groups in which you put your contacts.

Many businesses and business applications now use Google Contacts as a central cloud-based contacts database. The benefits are clear in that any time a contact is updated in Google Contacts (or another application that synchronises with it) then all your contacts are up to date.

We have now built Google Contacts synchronisation into the Text Marketer system so you can instantly pull your Google Contacts through to your address book and send them an SMS. You can even filter the data by the groups set up in Google Contacts. This is in addition to the other data tools available.

Video of how to synchronise your Google Contacts with Text Marketer and send them an SMS.

Associated video links:

• How to create a CSV file to import into Google Contacts
• Importing CSV files into Google Contacts
• Managing contact groups in Google Contacts to allow for filtering in Text Marketer

Would you like a free trial of this?

1. Sign up for a free Text Marketer account (using this link gives you 50 free SMS credits to test)
2. Follow the instructions above
3. Optional: Download our manual to read more about reply options, delivery reports, etc.

How to synchronise your Google Contacts and your Text Marketer system

Log in to your Text Marketer account and go to SETTINGS | GOOGLE CONTACTS

Click on SYNC GOOGLE CONTACTS.
- Initially this task requires you to confirm that we can synchronise your contacts (see next step). You need to do this only once but to keep your contacts up to date you’ll need to manually sync them every now and again.
- If you’re not logged into your Google account, you will need to do this with the Google username and password of the account you wish to synchronise with.

You will now be shown a success screen, showing how many contacts have been synchronised (we will only synchronise contacts with a valid mobile number field). The data will be stored in your Address Book. Additional contacts can also be added to your Address Book manually or by uploading additional data – i.e. data outside of your Google Contacts.

How to send an SMS to your Google Contacts and/or filter contacts

Go to SEND SMS | SEND TO ADDRESS BOOK 

Filtering your contacts to send to

Often we have ‘groups’ of contacts, e.g. customers/prospects/staff/sales/etc. You can put contacts into groups in your Google Contacts account and our system pulls through the group name information. So, for example, you could type in “staff’ in the filter box and then only display/select the “staff” group to send a text message to.

Use the Filter field at the top of the address book to filter contacts by any of the fields. You can select/deselect all and/or manually select the contacts you wish to send an SMS to. This means for example you could have multiple groups of contacts set up and you could filter by the group name.

Simply complete the message details such as Sender ID, Date, Time and Message Text and then hit the Submit button to send the text message to all the contacts you have selected.

Software Packages that use Google Contacts

Hundreds of cloud-based business applications can now synchronise with Google Contacts and are available at the Google Apps Marketplace. Mailchimp, Salesforce.com, Survey Monkey, Constant Contact and Capsule CRM to name but a few.

So, if you’re using Google Contacts as your central database, stand alone or via other software, you can now very quickly synchronise your contacts and send them all an SMS at the touch of a few buttons and benefit from our low, low SMS prices on send bulk text messages.

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