# Sending SMS VS Push Notifications to Users **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [March 30, 2021, 2:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904 "2021-03-30T02:43:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![V88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/v88/32/90054_2.png) [@V88](https://community.glideapps.com/u/V88)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/21 "2021-04-05T16:36:20Z")
Nope. Not to send an SMS. ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/22 "2021-04-05T18:06:24Z")
The only downside to this is it is either costly or has a huge delay. I created a free method for this a year ago and listed exactly how to do it 100% free and the SMS is sent immediately. > [@Free push notifications Workaround](https://community.glideapps.com/t/free-push-notifications-solved/6183): > > I have a solution for PUSH NOTIFICATIONS. It works with IOS and ANDROID. It is quick and has ZERO cost to everyone. You can do this in your google sheet or a separate sheet that is linked to your original (I used 4 linked sheets, I’ll explain later). 1st you setup on your sheet a variable or value you are wanting to trigger the notification. This data will need a VLOOKUP formula to link to the person you want notified’s phone number and phone carrier, so when the vlaue on the sheet is found usin… ---
**Author:** ![Jen\_NYCP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/23 "2021-04-05T18:14:55Z")
ohh will look into this. thanks! ---
**Author:** ![V88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/v88/32/90054_2.png) [@V88](https://community.glideapps.com/u/V88)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/24 "2021-04-05T18:28:24Z")
Hi @Drearystate that’s interesting as I see absolutely zero delays. It’s really instant. Can you explain what you were seeing as perhaps it was not configured correctly? Regarding pricing, my customers just create their own ClickSend account and our Integromat scenario uses this directly. For the typical size of their client bases and the frequency of notifications it seems very affordable. As a “plus side” the ClickSend dashboard and stats are really useful, plus you can even handle replies to the SMS if you need to. ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/25 "2021-04-05T18:47:59Z")
If you pay for the service then there is no delay but they even tell you theres up to a 5 minute delay otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![V88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/v88/32/90054_2.png) [@V88](https://community.glideapps.com/u/V88)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/26 "2021-04-05T18:48:33Z")
Who? Integromat or Clicksend? ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/27 "2021-04-05T18:49:57Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/1/6/1687f8dab5c535240db988064a7d677dd1ba1454.png) ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/28 "2021-04-05T18:50:12Z")
MInimal intervals… ---
**Author:** ![V88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/v88/32/90054_2.png) [@V88](https://community.glideapps.com/u/V88)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/29 "2021-04-05T18:50:51Z")
That’s for polling? We are talking webhook trigger. Which is instant. ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/30 "2021-04-05T18:51:13Z")
I have had a delay and Im on basic plan. I attempted to use this in place of my notifications before and it still has a 5 minute delay using webhooks. They go into a queue . I don’t know how often you send sms but I have to send on average 4 sms everytime I send. ---
**Author:** ![V88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/v88/32/90054_2.png) [@V88](https://community.glideapps.com/u/V88)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/31 "2021-04-05T18:52:21Z")
Ditto. Never seen any delay with webhook trigger. Don’t know how there even could be otherwise “callers” would fail with timeout? ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/32 "2021-04-05T18:53:17Z")
So it ends up sending the 1st one right away then queues the others every 5 minutes. This doesn’t work for me as I need 4 ppl to be notified at a time and instantly. ---
**Author:** ![V88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/v88/32/90054_2.png) [@V88](https://community.glideapps.com/u/V88)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/33 "2021-04-05T18:57:38Z")
Strange. I am also sending multiple webhooks with zero delay. I really can’t see it being of much use if you had to wait potentially 30 mins for, say, 6 hooks to fire? The queue is there specifically for webhooks that can’t be processed because your scenario isn’t running. No other reason. The only difference as you start to pay is a larger queue. Maybe you tried this a long time ago? It certainly doesn’t work like that now. ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/34 "2021-04-05T18:59:17Z")
You may be right. I tried it when we were first able to use webhooks. I paid for different plans to try and see if it worked and I could not get it to work instantly. ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/35 "2021-04-05T19:00:33Z")
Now with that being said, I used triggers within google sheets and not a button to trigger the events. That may or may not be the reason as well. ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/36 "2021-04-05T19:02:15Z")
Also, is there a cost doing it the way you are currently doing it? ---
**Author:** ![V88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/v88/32/90054_2.png) [@V88](https://community.glideapps.com/u/V88)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/37 "2021-04-05T19:08:16Z")
Yup. The ClickSend cost per SMS. But as I said earlier, that is my customers’ account so they manage the top-ups. Typically 2.5p per SMS but of course totally carrier agnostic. Also guaranteed no cost to the recipient. ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/38 "2021-04-06T17:13:42Z")
Thats good. I dont have the luxury of adding a cost…☹ I would just have it do the emails instead and convert them. ---
**Author:** ![Zapstuff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/zapstuff/32/37592_2.png) [@Zapstuff](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Zapstuff)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/39 "2021-05-05T01:11:14Z")
I’m interested in this same use case: single message sent to several (\<10) recipients at once. Integromat does allow an iterative parsing of JSON arrays that potentially can take an array of numbers and break them into separate bundles, each of which then gets passed onto ClickSend, The Integromat function that does this is called ‘Iterator’. Have you tried it by chance? I’ll check out Twilio as well… ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904/40 "2021-05-05T01:31:22Z")
I have tried Iterator, for calculating numbers for several rows returned by Search Rows. I can confirm it worked exactly like I want. [Previous page](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sending-sms-vs-push-notifications-to-users/24904.md?page=3)