FLASH SMS Is one kind of addon that helps your easily create dynamic
SMS from a Google Spreadsheet and sync the same with your
phone to send SMS. Sending SMS from phone number gives great
benefits compared to sending through bulk SMS providers,
Why use FLASH SMS
Since we are using telecom service to send SMM, your
phone number number will be displayed on the message and
the recipient will know that sms is sent by you. In case
of SMS API's messages sender number is masked with id's
which will be string or random digits like 'BANKNOW',
'GOOGLECODE' or 567696.
The recipient can reply back to your number and the
replies will be directly reaching your inox rather going
to any other API. This makes communitcation and
followups easier.
Its cheap. We did a math and we found that sending SMS
through telephone services are 75% cheaper than API.
Most interesting part is that many of us have a lot
unused SMS balance in phone as we don't have any
mechanisam to effective use.
Its easier. Doesn't need to write any code, doesn't need
to wait for any approval, doesnt need to hire any person
to help you to send SMS.
Higher success rate. SMS throug API's gets blocked by
`Do not disturb` registries and there are more chance of
being getting marked as spam. When you send SMS through
your phone there is a higher chance of person reading
your communitcation rather than going to his spam
folder.
Install
the addon from Gsuite Marketplace.
Download
the app for your Android phone. Sorry, there is no app for
iOS.
Once you install the addon in the Google spreadsheet, then open
the sidebar. Initially it will look blank as shown below.
Clik on "Create your first campaign" and then start filling the
details. Here, I have given the campaign name as "Test campaign"
and then a short description of what my campaign is about.
Now lets add details of the messages that we need to send. The
two columns that the addon will search for maping with the SMS
are
Phone Number
and Message. You can have
any other columns in the spreadsheet for creating the SMS
message. For eg: In the below scenario I have a name column
for creating custom messages for the recipient. The addon will
only look for columns
Phone Number and
Phone Number for creating
the SMS object.
Once you add the messages in the spreadsheet, now it needs to
be synched with the addon. To do this click on the button
Sync From Spreadsheet and
wait for the operation to be completed. Once the sync is
completed then messages from the spreadsheet will show in the
sidebar in the exact format on how it will be sent.
Being done that, now in the bottom of the sidebar click on
Create
button so that the campaign will be created. Even after
creating the campaign you can add or delete messages from the
campaign. But make sure that you are saving all the changes.
Once you save the campaign then your work on spreadsheet is
completed. Lets get into the Android App.
Always remember to use same Google account to login to the
Google Spreadsheet and the Android app.
Open the app in your phone and you will see all the
campaigns that you have created.
Select a campaign to see all the messages that are synched
Click on send button Wait for all the messages sending to
completed.
After some time you will be able to see the delivery
reports of each messages.
Isn't it easy? Now lets send some SMS
Need help? Send a message to
addon@elifent.tech