Sending SMS VS Push Notifications to Users

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Nope. Not to send an SMS.

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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.

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ohh will look into this. thanks!

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Hi @Drearystate thatā€™s interesting as I see absolutely zero delays. Itā€™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 ā€œplus sideā€ the ClickSend dashboard and stats are really useful, plus you can even handle replies to the SMS if you need to.

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If you pay for the service then there is no delay but they even tell you theres up to a 5 minute delay otherwise.

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Who? Integromat or Clicksend?

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MInimal intervalsā€¦

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Thatā€™s for polling? We are talking webhook trigger. Which is instant.

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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 donā€™t know how often you send sms but I have to send on average 4 sms everytime I send.

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Ditto. Never seen any delay with webhook trigger. Donā€™t know how there even could be otherwise ā€œcallersā€ would fail with timeout?

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So it ends up sending the 1st one right away then queues the others every 5 minutes. This doesnā€™t work for me as I need 4 ppl to be notified at a time and instantly.

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Strange. I am also sending multiple webhooks with zero delay. I really canā€™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 canā€™t be processed because your scenario isnā€™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 doesnā€™t work like that now.

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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.

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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.

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Also, is there a cost doing it the way you are currently doing it?

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Yup. The ClickSend cost per SMS. But as I said earlier, that is my customersā€™ 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.

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Thats good. I dont have the luxury of adding a costā€¦:frowning:

I would just have it do the emails instead and convert them.

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Iā€™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 ā€˜Iteratorā€™. Have you tried it by chance?

Iā€™ll check out Twilio as wellā€¦

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I have tried Iterator, for calculating numbers for several rows returned by Search Rows. I can confirm it worked exactly like I want.