To send an outgoing SMS, you must first login to the smsZy portal and go to the Send SMS option.

Field Description:

Sender - You can enter your business name or a mobile number that you own. This is limited to 11 characters and must be alphanumeric. Special characters are not supported.

<aside> ⚠️ Please be aware that spoofing numbers or business name may cause your account to be suspended and any balance in your account may also be forfeited.

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Receiver - The person whom you would like to send the SMS to. The selection available are:

• Phone Number - You can manually enter a single or multiple phone numbers.
• Address Book - Select one or multiple address book. This will send this message to all entries within the selected address book. With this selection, you can use dynamic fields to auto populate dynamic content that is specific to an entry in your address book.
• Upload .csv - You can upload a .csv formatted file with the phone numbers. You can use the below file as a template. Please enter numbers on the second row onwards.

Type - Defaults to Plain text.

• Plain text
• Unicode - Support for special characters like Chinese characters

Message - The content of your message. A standard SMS can have up to 160 characters. However, if a message is longer than 160 characters, it will be concatenated and sent as multiple SMS messages, up to a maximum of 480 characters (or 3 SMS messages).