Plain Text & Unicode SMS Everyone is familiar with the Bulk SMS and its benefits for business organizations. While sending Bulk SMS to your customers, you should decide the text content or message. The text content can be Normal (Non-Unicode) SMS or Unicode SMS depending on the purpose and nature of SMS. It creates differences in the SMS length of the SMS message. The details to understand the universal law for the SMS length and character calculations are explained here: Plain Text (Non-Unicode SMS) In universal standards, the English language is set as standard text content which has a limit of 160 characters for a single SMS. When you send an SMS message over 160 characters the message will be split. As per the character count in the SMS, it will be deducted from your account. Text SMS Character Count 1 SMS Credit = 160 Character 2 SMS Credit = 306 Character (Which means 153*2 = 306) 3 SMS Credit = 459 Character (Which means 153*3= 459) And this list goes on up to 918 Characters (6 Length) as per Nepal Telecom operator rules. For higher delivery of SMS, it’s preferable to send up to 700 characters only. Unicode SMS Unicode SMS is any text message sent in any other languages except English. Unlike normal text message, Unicode SMS only limits 70 characters in a single message. If the SMS is over 70 characters, the message is segmented into 67 character segments. For example, Nepali, Newari, Bhojpuri, Hindi, etc. Unicode SMS Character Count 1 SMS Credit = 70 Character 2 SMS Credit = 134 Character (67*2 = 134) Note: If one character in SMS is Unicode, whole SMS becomes Unicode. Conclusion At Sparrow SMS, we provide reliable Bulk SMS Services and support to make your SMS campaign successful. You can try our free demo account with 10 free credits, Signup Here! Contact us today for any further queries. Website: www.sparrowsms.com
Are you counting down the New Year? Your customers are too waiting for new deals and offer from you. So, it’s time to make everyone excited about your New Year WOW offers and promote it aggressively. Whether you have a flash sale in your products or you are organizing an event this New Year, you can use Bulk SMS to reach your target audience. Here are some promotional tips for this New Year, 1. Promote your offers on social media Social media is ruling half of the time in our daily lives. It has help people to acquire information regarding your new year offers and engage them. You can collect feedback on your photos, deals, and video easily. Use of different social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr based on its usage can enhance your sales too. It’s a good idea to first understand how your audience uses social media and choose the best platform to acquire maximum benefit. 2. Increase your targeted audience list If you want to increase your audience, you should excite them with your upcoming event or offers. And the best way to reach your target audience is email/SMS. You can segment your audience on the basis of their taste and preferences. For examples, you can offer separate deals for women clothing and men clothing. This can help you reach broad audiences in the right targeted way. 3. Use Bulk SMS Marketing Mobiles are close to everyone. It’s everyone’s personal device they prefer to carry anywhere anytime. This has created an opportunity for business managers to set their marketing campaign in a personalized way. Sending SMS can be the best way to promote your New Year offers and reach the maximum audience. Likewise, the researchers have found that SMS is read within 3 minutes of delivery. You can use Bulk SMS Marketing to send: Coupons and discounts for this New Year event Special free gifts to your customers Reminding about your upcoming events or offers Contests with free gifts to winners via SMS At Sparrow SMS, we always tend to assist our customers to maximize their audience reach via Bulk SMS in Nepal. Talk to us about the possibilities of it. Sign up free trial today! Or visit our site: http://sparrowsms.com/. [/et_pb_text] [/et_pb_column] [/et_pb_row] [/et_pb_section]
Bulk SMS API helps to send single or high volume message like alerts, reminder, notifications, one-time password, and other transactional messages to the customers. You can simply integrate SMS API into the existing system or software to send automatic notifications for any business communication needs. In this digital market today, SMS is ruling every small and big business organizations. It has been proving its ability and convenience to boost your sales volume and retain customer relationship. Sparrow SMS provide robust, reliable and easy-to-use SMS API Gateway services trusted by many banks, IT companies, Logistics, Government agencies, Schools and Colleges, Travel agencies and so on. How to get free Bulk SMS API Choose the desired module as per your requirements and register an account with Sparrow SMS You will get an email with further formalities of the undertaking, Sender ID details. Now you shall receive login account details with free demo HTTP/HTTPS SMS API. This API you can integrate into your software, application or website and test our free demo account. Either you wanted to integrate on PHP, Java, Dotnet, WordPress or any other platform, our REST-based API supports to send SMS instantly. Get free demo account now – Free bulk SMS Sign up here.
Sparrow SMS offers reliable Bulk SMS in Nepal providing instantaneous and dynamic Bulk SMS delivery report. This help businesses to track the status of the SMS they have send out to their clients. Bulk SMS delivery report enables to check how their mobile campaigns are working and make sound decisions on that basis. Moreover, you can also download the reports into a Microsoft Excel worksheet for greater analysis. To view the SMS status/Report we can view it from Web Portal/SMS Report/Outgoing or Incoming. Here we can view the summary status of the SMS pushed or received. We can also the summary as well as detail report in excel file format, which can be downloaded from “Download” (Summary) and “Download All Log” (Detail). In the report, we can find five status of SMS pushed i.e. delivered, accepted, failed, queued and dispatched. Delivered: When the SMS pushed is successfully pushed in NCell Number it generates the status delivered. Sometimes in case of NTC, it generates delivered, which is also considered as the message is successfully pushed in NTC number. The final status in NCell is delivered. Accepted: When the SMS pushed is successfully pushed in NTC/CDMA number it generates the status accepted. Sometimes in case if NCell it generates accepted (or accepted by SMSC), it is because the message is accepted/received by SMSC but not delivered up to the recipient. The final status in NTC is accepted. Failed: When the SMS pushed is not delivered in any of the Telecom then it generates the status failed. It is because the receiver number might be “Out of network coverage” or “within weak network coverage” or “Switched off”. The credit consumed in failed status is not reverted, It is because the SMS pushed from the Client’s system is received at Sparrow’s server and further pushed to telecom’s server. In this process, the credit is consumed when the SMS is pushed from Sparrow’s server to telecom. So it is because credit consumed is not reverted. Queued: When the SMS pushed from Client’s system is received at sparrow’s server but not pushed further to telecom’s server because of some technical error like shortcode/ server down, VPN restarted/off, error in Telecom’s network/server and huge data traffic. If the pushed SMS has been queued for more than an hour and is still not delivered/accepted/failed then the credits consumed will be reverted back to the clients. Dispatched: When the SMS pushed is not delivered because of the error in “Identity” provided, then it generates status dispatched. It is because the identity is inactive or mistakenly entered. Sparrow SMS is transparent in regards to the delivery of SMS text messages. So, businesses can track the SMS report instantly and use the stats to plan further for the next marketing campaign. For any queries, feel free to Call/WhatsApp us at 9802005007/08.