You might have seen it before, probably not once, nor twice, but several times. You are on a website trying to complete a transaction. Then you need to make a payment with your bank card using one of the payment merchants online and you are required to provide an OTP or OneTime Password. What does it mean and why are modern businesses now using it consistently?
With the alarming rate at which GSM operators invents different phone number prefixes, sometimes it might be difficult to identify what network a particular phone number belongs to. Additionally, it will be good to know the CDMA networks and the phone number prefixes associated with each.
Here are the present prefixes for GSM networks in Nigeria and the CDMA numbers.
The Eid El Kabir sallah for 2022 is upon us. Get loads of sample Eid El Kabir greetings, prayers, quotes, and goodwill messages for the Eid al Adha celebration. It is a great collection of sample messages that you can send to relatives, colleagues, staff, friends, customers, acquaintances, workmates, schoolmates, and other loved ones.
We have provided convenient payment options for you here on SmartSMSSolutions. One of these options is payment on an ATM. See a step-by-step tutorial on how to buy SMS using this option.
Did you know? You can now schedule as many as possible messages at once to deliver at a later time on the SmartSMSSolutions’ website. This blog post will help you see the step-by-step process of how to do that.
Would you love to have a free SMS account on one of the best bulk SMS platforms in Nigeria with the best delivery options and customer support? Well, you are just 5 minutes away from signing up for boundless opportunities. Let's walk you through the process.
Since the first text message was sent in the year 1992, Bulk SMS has evolved into one of the major means of communication among young and old the world all over.
SmartSMSSolutions offers an affordable and efficient bulk SMS platform for you to send your bulk SMS with fun, low cost, and optimum convenience.
The process of sending bulk SMS on SmartSMSSolutions is a very easy one. Simply follow the steps enumerated below to send SMS to a single phone number:
Are you a business owner or an employee in an organization tasked with the responsibility of sending bulk SMS to staff or customers? Or could it be that you have SMS notifications to send to many phone numbers? We have a system that allows you to send SMS to multiple phone numbers all at once with a single click.
This article explains the steps for sending SMS to phone numbers that are saved on an android phone, whether some of the contacts or all of them, in an easy and simple process.
Do you own an iPhone and wondering how to send SMS to the contacts on the phone using the bulk SMS website? Before you grab a pen and paper to write out the numbers one at a time, check out this simpler method.
Depending on your use for bulk SMS, and the type of messages you send, it could be that you send SMS to a particular group of recipients often. This might be a group of customers on your customer management system, your staff, or members of an association you belong to.
We have an Address Book feature on your platform that saves you the stress of having to type those numbers every time you want to send an SMS.
If you have phone numbers saved as an address book on your bulk SMS account, learn here how to send SMS to those numbers.
When sending SMS on SmartSMSSolutions, there are three(3) options for adding phone numbers to the message page, namely; typing the recipients, using phone numbers saved in an address book, or uploading a file containing the phone numbers. The latter is what this article is focused on.
In recent weeks, we have received requests from some of our clients to incorporate a daily SMS summary tool on our platform. Well, we are happy to inform you that we’ve completed the process of building this tool and it is now ready.
Gone are the days when people go about looking for the so-called ‘white-collar jobs. The problem now is that even those jobs aren’t available anymore. The tough competition for these jobs equally results in people who get them receiving less than that which their qualifications deserve.
Just think about the constant ragging by bosses who are sometimes just over-demanding. It’s time to look ahead and be your own boss. Here are about 30 small-scale businesses in Nigeria that are really profitable and interestingly, require very little capital to start.
SmartSMSSolutionsnow offers an exciting list of sample wedding invitation messages and other related sample messages. Some of these messages can be found below.
In the sample messages, you will need to replace the placeholders (ie #....#) with the relevant information. For instance, #TIME# will be replaced with the time of the event and #VENUE# with the venue of the event.
New users can register here while existing SmartSMSSolutions users can log in to begin sending SMS.
Birthdays are never complete until you show that loved one, friend, family member, girlfriend, boyfriend, boss, parents, friend, or colleague some love by sending him/her a Happy Birthday SMS. Find the best collection of Happy Birthday text messages, SMS, quotes, prayers, best wishes, and goodwill messages that can be sent to your loved ones below.
Birthdays are never complete until you show that loved one, friend, family member, girlfriend, boyfriend, boss, parents, friend, or colleague some love by sending him/her a Happy Birthday SMS. Find the best collection of Happy Birthday text messages, SMS, quotes, prayers, best wishes, and goodwill messages that can be sent to your loved ones below.
It’s been more than 2 years since we introduced a robust service here at SmartSMSSolutions known as the SIM Hosting Service. This service has survived the test of time and still remains one of the most effective means of delivering SMS to all phone numbers.
Here is all you need to know about the SIM Hosting service; how to apply, what to use it for, and the benefits of the SIM Hosting service.
Are you an active user of the SIM Hosting service on SmartSMSSolutions? If yes, you can now manage pending messages in the outbox. Here is how to go about that.
In a bid to ensure full and efficient SMS delivery to all phone numbers in Nigeria, regardless of DND status or other restrictions, we incorporated a fully functional international route in our system some time ago.
This article is aimed at explaining what the route does, and how you can use it for your bulk SMS needs.
In a previous article, we considered extensively what the promotional bind is and when and how to use it for bulk SMS. Let us now see another delivery bind that is available on our platform and how you can use it to deliver SMS at a 100 percent delivery success rate.
At SmartSMSSolutions, we currently have 4 delivery routes for SMS, each with its unique uses, pros, cons, and requirements for use. This article discusses all you need to know about the promotional bind or bulk route.
At the moment, we have four (4) different delivery routes for SMS at SmartSMSSolutions. Each of these delivery routes or binds have their specific use case, pros, and limitations. Learn about it all here.
Would you love to find out how to stop the delivery of SMS with an undesirable default Sender ID that does not represent you or your brand? Very likely, you want all your messages to deliver with your own unique Sender Identity. The simple process is what we are about to show you.
What was your first thought when you heard you have to register Sender IDs before they deliver? Let's guess! "Oh, they have come again, what a stress!". We understand where that feeling is coming from, but it would interest you to note that this is for your personal protection. Let's see how.
Are you concerned that an application for Sender ID registration might be rejected by the operators? Or could it be that you've had one submitted and yet to get approval? See what you can do to increase the chances of Sender ID registration approval.
We wish to inform you of a new development on the SMS platform, which is that Sender IDs not registered will now default to New Message as the Sender ID.
With the introduction of the DND, there are instances you might want to separate a group of phone numbers by their DND status. We have provided a tool to do just that. The provides the details about the tool and how you can use it.
As a regular bulk SMS user, you should be already familiar with the various mobile networks available for SMS subscribers. The most popular ones are MTN, GLO, Airtel, and 9mobile. Here at SmartSMSSolutions, our SMS gateway supports not one, not two, but all these mobile networks mentioned. However, while sending SMS, there might be times when you need to determine the number of phone numbers belonging to a particular network in your recipient list. You can do this using the phone number extractor and separator tool. Before we consider how to use the tool, however, let us first see why you might need to do this.
Extracting phone numbers from a file is a very essential feature of bulk SMS platforms and one you get on SmartSMSSolutions for free. This feature can be beneficial to you as an SMS user when you need to send SMS to phone numbers that are saved in a file. In this article, we will consider why this tool is important, what type of file it supports and how to use it.
Have you ever had the need to get phone numbers from a body of text for the purpose of sending SMS? The first thought might be to manually write out those numbers one at a time. However, what if you have phone numbers in their hundreds or thousands in the text?
We now have a phone number extractor and separator that allows you to get phone numbers out of texts and files, and also group phone numbers by networks and DND status. This article shows the different use cases for the tool and how to access it.
You can use Smart Compose to dynamically generate unique messages for your recipients with the use of tags and a CSV file. The CSV file holds the unique data for each client, while the message contains the TAGs that will be replaced to create unique messages for your recipients.
There are instances where you might like to send uniquely different messages to different phone numbers. An example of this is when you want to include the names of the recipients in each message. Instead of pushing these messages one by one, Cloud Compose allows you to upload a CSV file and push the messages in a single batch. This blog shows how simple this is.
A few weeks ago, due to the recent KYC policy from the regulators, API token generation was disabled. During this period you might have received the error - "Error generating API token. Kindly try again later". We are pleased to inform you that the issue has been resolved and you can now generate your API tokens.
As you might be aware, the regulators now require that a full KYC (Know-Your-Customer) be done for all our clients. This involves validating every client’s phone number and email address. This guide is to help you know how to confirm your phone number and email address under the KYC.
This is to let you know that registration is now opened for the transactional/financial bind. This is the special route dedicated to the delivery of banking notifications and OTPs.
You can apply for this connection at https://app.smartsmssolutions.com/sms-sender-id-transactional
Having difficulty sending your messages due to an unregistered Sender ID? The regulators now require that a full KYC is done on all Sender IDs for SMS. We have put a simple and robust system in place to help all our clients.
