Adding additional Phone numbers for SMS

[josh]

See below for another alternative approach.

@josh

And with the HTTP Action functionality in rules, you can integration pretty much any service that offers a webhook or API for sending messages however you want.

I hadn’t personally tried it before, but TextBelt seems like a pretty simple API and uses prepaid credits rather than monthly subscription. I signed up for 50 messages and it seems to work fine based on my quick / lightweight testing.

Or for a more advanced version showing how you can use a variable or expressions within the content:

@William_G

I have different care givers for parents that have different phones and carriers

Is this for a commercial / non-personal use case?

@William_G

Those registrations could take days to weeks.

Toll free numbers are instant and don’t have the same A2P 10DLC requirements. There’s an optional free registration to increase throughout in toll free numbers.

@William_G

The SMS options are not that simple with the new regulations

I hear you. It has complicated things across the board. And the additional non-compliance fines are getting outrageous. It’s getting to the point where offering SMS just isn’t worth the risk in some cases - for example, Zapier blocked SMS messaging to T-Mobile altogether (unless you are using your own self registered Twilio or SMS provider).

Increasing the number of allowed SMS phone numbers only further increases and amplifies that risk which is why I’m more likely to lean toward a “Bring your own SMS” type of integration.

But that just brings us back to a chicken and egg thing where the regulations and compliance in the SMS space are making those type of offerings even more challenging for players who want to be in the SMS space.