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SMS.to

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What is SMS.to?

SMS.to is a bulk SMS marketing tool, available via an API that enables developers to add bulk SMS features to Viper, or Whatsapp, etc.

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An Easy and Affordable Way to Communicate and Marketing Our Business

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Nathan Brooke
Digital Marketing Manager in Marketing at Australian Retsel Distributors (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using SMS.to when it comes to communicating with our customers. The software makes it easy to send automated messages and also send notifications. Besides great communication with our clients, we as well use SMS.to as a marketing tool where we send targeted messages to promote our products. One reason we choose SMS.to is [that] it's affordable and not easy to block messages sent and therefore we are sure all outbound messages will get to the intended recipients.

Pros

  • to is very affordable.
  • Easy integration with other third parties.
  • Supports both inbound and outbound messages.
  • It's easy to schedule messages.
  • Sending targeted messages is easy.
  • Timely delivery is a plus.

Cons

  • While there is a room for integration, these integrations are not easy.

Most Important Features

  • Inbound and outbound messages.
  • Fast delivery.
  • Scheduling messages.
  • Targeted messages for marketing campaigns.

Return on Investment

  • We have a great channel for communicating with our clients.
  • to offers an easy way to market our business.
  • Fast communication, for instance when sending notifications.

My Experience With SMS.to

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Lianet Silvester
Customer Support Specialist in Customer Service at Azam Writers (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When it comes to customer engagements, we trust SMS.to. It offers the best features and makes it easy to send notifications to customers through their phones. The software also serves as a marketing solution since besides sending important notifications, we can as well send marketing and promotional messages. What I like most is the ability to send emails in bulk. It saves time and money.

Pros

  • Bulk messaging.
  • Easy to send notifications to customers.
  • With SMS.to, it is easy to market our business thanks to the ability to send promotional messages.
  • It's easy to use and affordable.

Cons

  • I have experienced no problems.

Most Important Features

  • Bulk messages.
  • Inbound and outbound messages
  • Scheduling

Return on Investment

  • Easy communication.
  • Better engagements thanks to fast delivery of messages.
  • It's a great marketing software.

Alternatives Considered

Respond.io

The hassle free SMS marketing platform software

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Ramón Carmona MedinaView profile
Co-Founder and CMO in Marketing at Bussi (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • They have one of the lowest prices per SMS that I have seen out there.
  • They charge per SMS delivered so it's ideal when sending SMS when your company has a large number of users.
  • Since is possible to integrate with third party aplications through zapier it's possible to make complex automations like sending a series of SMS when a user just sign up for the first time.
  • You can pay with Paypal, sometimes plataforms only let you pay with gateways as stripe which may fail and can damage your marketing plan so honestly this was a feature that pushed us to make the buying decision.

Cons

  • For some reason once the campaign is sent it doesn't start to send SMS right away it may take 30min to a couple of hours. It doesn't matter is your campaign is not urgent or emergency.
  • You have to upload your contact list for the specific campaign It seems that you can't just copy and paste the numbers for quick campaigns.
  • Even if the UX is undertandable, there is room for improvement.

Most Important Features

  • Payment by PayPal before we had problems with other platforms that use to block credit cards after several months and end up by damaging our schedules.
  • That you can pay per SMS delivered and not per contacts since we have a big number of users.
  • Easy to use anyone in the marketing area is able to use SMS.to

Return on Investment

  • Since the SMS are low cost we are able to make direct sms campaigns and motivate users to use the product mor often.
  • Since you pay per SMS sent and not per contact we are already saving a ton of money.

Alternatives Considered

EZ Texting and MessageBird

Other Software Used

Respond.io, Jira Software

SMS.to - B2C communication made easy

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Nigel RunesuView profile
Freelance Digital Marketing Consultant in Marketing at Word Of Digital (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SMS.to to send automated messages to my customers for various reasons, but mostly just as notification mails.

Pros

  • Outbound Messages
  • Inbound Messages
  • SMS API

Cons

  • Inbound SMSs not yet available in my country
  • API Intergration, it is a bit complicated and i had to get a developer to help me understand it all

Most Important Features

  • Outbound Messages
  • The use of Dynamic tags to fill in custom information
  • The ease of access of their Opt-Out feature
  • Great support from account managers

Return on Investment

  • communication with my clients at affordable prices
  • time saved withtheir automation
  • time saved from the implementation of dynamic tags
  • having these automated SMS sent has helped my side hustle look and come across as a professional establishment when its just a one-man show

Alternatives Considered

OpenText Notifications and OpenText Exstream (formerly HP Exstream)

Other Software Used

OpenText Notifications, OpenText Exstream (formerly HP Exstream)