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We use TextMagic for our app in the UK. Our app sends an SMS notification to a customer when they have time critical thing to look at. We really like TextMagic
by georgespencer 14y ago
We use TextMagic for our app in the UK. Our app sends an SMS notification to a customer when they have time critical thing to look at. We really like TextMagic because there's no cost for us receiving & processing an inbound SMS (i.e. a reply from the customer).
There are a bunch of ways to help limit outbound SMS:
• Limit your hours. We only send SMS from 09:30 to 20:30.
• Anything that happens out of those hours, put into a "digest" format. "You had four macguffins overnight."
• If there are "busy periods", queue messages up so they get one per hour saying "You had 3 macguffins in the last hour".
Hope this helps.
- kevinprince 14y agoAgree with the safe hours piece. People really hate it when you text them at 2am ;)
- Turing_Machine 14y agoImplied but not stated: better be sure you limit your service by geographic area --or-- that you have really reliable location data for the users. My 2 AM is someone else's prime texting time. :-)
- r4vik 14y agoeasy enough to sniff their local time with javascript though