Re: Sending SMS txt messages

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

Agree with Brad. We tried to use the email addresses. They go on the
network behind all other traffic and there are too many not received to be
used for anything important.

Art

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:20 AM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'll put in my 2cents since I've worked with literally many hundreds of
> customers that want to do this.
>
> Find a service online that will do it using API/RESTful calls if you want
> to make sure it works.  You can use something like GETURI (
> www.bvstools.com/geturi.html) or Scott's HTTPAPI to make the call to send
> the SMS message.
>
> Even if you know what number and carrier, etc, it doesn't always work, and
> I've been hearing of some shutting down those types of services.
>
> Now, if it's not an integral part of your system and you don't care if the
> messages may not get there, you can fight with the email to sms options.
> But if it's a big part, the money to pay for a service to do this is well
> worth it.
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com