Email2SMS is a powerful service for sending SMS text messages to an individual or a group of mobile numbers. It is extremely versatile, and includes the ability to send text messages via a web interface. It can be customised to perform various different functions and a single Email2SMS account can service an unlimited number of users. Email2SMS can also receive SMS messages and convert them to emails. A built in reply feature allows for true two-way text conversations between an email account and a mobile phone.
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Main Features:
No software to install
No software to install Use any plain text email service, including all popular email clients and webmail services, to send SMS texts even if you have an email disclaimer or signature.
Send to individuals, or groups of mobile numbers
Use mobile numbers, phonebook nicknames, or distribution lists as recipients.
Customisable sender ID
Make the message appear to come from a telephone number or a name.
Extended messages up to 459 characters long
Access to the full 160 characters of each message or 459 characters maximum allowed with multipart messages.
Receive SMS for free - complete 2-way functionality
The recipient of your text message can reply (at a cost to them of a standard message), and the reply SMS will be routed back to the original email address that sent the outgoing SMS. Alternatively, you can simply record all incoming messages in the web account instead of sending emails. The ability to receive replies is a free service available to all Email2SMS customers.
Full delivery reporting
Keep track of when text messages are delivered or if certain numbers fail. Delivery reports can be sent back via email or simply recorded in your account.
Web Administration Account
The Email2SMS Administration Account is an online web interface. It allows you to change the default configuration of your service, set up distribution lists containing unlimited mobile numbers, view a record of incoming and outgoing SMS messages. Administrators can send text messages online with this interface, and set up auto-responders and subscriptions on Virtual Numbers.
Online phonebook
Associate a nickname with a mobile number to text people quickly. Generate distribution lists from your Phonebook. Changing a Phonebook number will automatically give you the option to update any distribution lists containing the previous number.
Export records to CSV
Search and sort all incoming and outgoing SMS text messages, and export text messages to CSV file format for easy opening in spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel.
Virtual Numbers
Purchase Virtual Numbers online in your CardBoardFish.com Account and assign them to Email2SMS. Messages sent to your Virtual Number can be sent to your default email address, or simply stored in your Administration Account.
Auto-responders & Subscriptions
Send text messages automatically in response to anyone who texts your Virtual Numbers. Set up subscriptions on Virtual Numbers that allow people to add and remove themselves to/from distribution lists by text message.
Manage SMS campaigns
Send out batches of text messages with ease, and group all SMS replies together for each text campaign. You can also rent a dedicated incoming SMS number for use with your campaigns.
Send SMS text messages worldwide
Text messages can be sent to any destination in over 200 countries. Top
Example:
This example shows how easy it is to send the text message "Please call me at the office." to a single mobile number, as well as a distribution list named xyz, using email to SMS.
Further Information:
Designed to allow for rapid deployment, Email2SMS (email-2-SMS, SMS-2-email and web-SMS) does not require the installation of any additional software. As a result it is fully OS (Operating System) independent, functioning flawlessly on Windows, Linux and Apple Mac OS X amongst others, and will never consume you or your staff's valuable time with compatibility issues or software updates. Any computer or device that allows you to send emails is all you need to send out or receive SMS messages.
Email2SMS's administration interface allows you to do more than just change configuration options. It gives you the ability to maintain separate passwords for your system users and administrators, and can even allow system users to operate without a password by instead validating them according to their email server address. In addition, the administration account tracks all text messages leaving and entering the system. SMS text messages can be given a campaign ID when they are sent to allow for the easy production of reports that can then be downloaded in CSV format, ready for manipulation in your spreadsheet application of choice. Administrators can also send SMS messages from the web interface, ideal for starting a text message batch send to a distribution list, while forwarding confirmations and replies to an email address of their choosing.
A unique feature of this system is its scalability, allowing large workforces to communicate efficiently. For every SMS text sent, the email address of the sender is recorded so that any SMS replies can be routed back to the correct person via email, completely free of charge to you. The person who replies is charged their standard network rate.
Email disclaimers and signatures are commonly added to the end of emails. By placing the word "END" on a line of its own after your text message, the system will exclude any further text after that line.
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Please take the time to read our comprehensive Email2SMS documentation, available for download below, in order to learn about the full range of features this service offers.
Common Uses:
Two-way paging of staff or customers (both email-to-SMS and SMS-to-email)
Subscription services whereby users text a Virtual Number with the word ‘start’ to add themselves to a distribution list on your service and ‘stop’ to remove themselves.
Advertising by SMS to customers, sending one text message to a large list of numbers.
Customer initiated information requests, where customers text a Virtual Number. The customer can receive an automatic reply to confirm their message was received.
Alerts and notifications, for everything from homework deadlines and snow closure updates in schools and colleges to service status updates in large corporations.
* A dedicated incoming number is not required to receive replies to messages you send. It is sometimes useful for marketing campaigns or user initiated information request.
** A gold number is a more memorable number such as 01611 10 20 30. Top
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