How To Enable Your Bulk sms Portal To Send Bulk sms Without Internet Connection.
This premium feature is inclusive in SPC 3 Component but most users fail to utilize it. Simhostng is a longcode services provide in Nigeria. In a shared long code environment every company which wants to avail this service will be provided with a Keyword (Keyword is an unique identifier for your company on our shared Long code. e.g. if, your companies name is ABC Ltd and you took a keyword say ABCL on our long code then every message which starts with ABCL and a blank space will be forwarded to your panel.

Visit www.simhostng.com to get a keyword. Example CSMS. While applying for keyword, remember to use your SPC 3 longcode Url as the forwarding URL. http://yourdomain.com/components/com_spc/sms2web.php?

EXAMPLE http://conveysms.com/components/com_spc/sms2web.php?

If you are using spc4, Please contact simhostng customer care for Help.
Once you have activated your keyword, Your sms portal user can now send bulksms without internet using the format below.

Your user Just need to send an SMS from the phone number they registered with in the format: keyword@password@group name@text message to 09028000058.



How It Works

This service is an economic way to send "Bulk SMS" from your phone. For instance, you have an account on www.yoursmsportal.com and the mobile number supplied when you were registering is 234808069813261, access password to your online SMS account is 2010, and you have a list on you online phone book called ‘parents’. An SMS to this list may read as such: "Dear parents, this is to inform you that December 25, 2010 has been scheduled as open day. Please endeavor to come. Thanks."

To send this message using Text Direct, compose SMS from the mobile 2348069813261 as given below:

keyword@2010@parents@Dear parents, this is to inform you that December 25, 2010 has been declared as Open Day. Please endeavor to come. Thanks.

Simply send to 09028000058. The message gets delivered to every mobile number listed on the Parents phonebook list.

Extra Features available on Text Direct

To check balance:

keyword@your password@bal

e.g. keyword@2010@bal



To transfer SMS Units:

keyword@Your password@transfer@amount@recipient username

e.g. keyword@2010@transfer@4000@FLORENCE

Member with username FLORENCE will receive 4000 SMS units from you.



To get the total GSM numbers in a phonebook group list:

keyword@Your password@group list@count

e.g. keyword@2010@Colleagues@count

The total numbers in the phonebook group called "Colleagues" will be sent to you.

NB:

* Replace the keyword with the keyword you registered on [url]simhostng.com[/url]

·The mobile number, 09028000058, is configured for data processing only. It will not handle calls.

·Password is case-sensitive.

·Password must be followed immediately by the @ symbol.

·Group name must be followed immediately by the @ symbol.



This means that there should be no space between the group name and @ symbol, likewise between the password and group name. Otherwise your message will not be delivered.

Please note that your users can only use this service on the mobile line you registered with. This is because the line has been mapped to your SMS account.

Try Demo at www.td.conveysms.com

Do your site send international sms[quote author=Simhostng post=43738987][/quote]

Yes, our Auto Reply send to international number.