Fast SMS Deliveries
Often, there is a need to send one-off SMS messages to a single recipient, instead of sending to multiple recipients using a campaign. To avoid the process of creating a list each time you want to send an SMS, we have created a system that allows you to manually send messages individually to each subscriber. If you want to send SMS campaigns to multiple subscribers, check out this article.
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Sending individual SMS messages
To send individual messages, you should go to the SMS section and click on Quick Send in the left side menu:
When you do this, the following screen will appear, where you can send the SMS to one or several subscribers separated by commas. Once you have filled in the sender, the recipients, and the message you want to send, you just have to press the Send button for it to be sent.
On this same screen, you can check the size of the message and the type of encoding and, therefore, how many credits it will cost you to make your shipment. If you want advanced information about this topic, you can check the detailed explanation we give in the SMS campaigns article, as all of this applies equally in this type of shipment.
Checking the statistics of the shipments
Once you have made your shipments, you can check what has happened with them by clicking on the Reports option in the left side menu:
Once you have done this, in the drop-down menu where it says Campaigns, you should select Individual Shipments:
And you will see the list of your individual shipments. You can see that there is less information than in the usual campaigns, so if your functionality is oriented to send a mass SMS and track it, we recommend that you make a campaign instead of several quick shipments. The information we offer you are the shipping and delivery dates and the status, which can be one of the following three:
- Delivered: These are the SMS that have been received and the operator has returned the reception time to us.
- Pending: These SMS have been delivered to the telephone operator but, either the operator has delivered them but has not returned the delivery time to us or has not yet delivered them for various reasons (mobile off, out of coverage, etc).
- Not delivered: SMS that could not be delivered because the number no longer exists or is not valid.
