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Send text messages to your customers via a simple email. Sign up for a free account to try the Text Marketer Email to SMS Gateway. |
You need a Text Marketer account to use our email-to-text gateway. You can sign-up for free at www.textmarketer.co.uk and get 10 free credits to get you started.
Username and Password
To be sure that no-one else can use your account for sending text messages, we provide you with an API username and password to identify you when you use any of our API services, such as the email gateway. These are different to the username and password you use to log in to the web interface.
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If you don't know your API username and password, you'll find them when you log on to the Text Marketer web interface here:
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Email Subject: Field and Authentication - There are two ways we allow emails to be authenticated
Email To: Field
For basic use of the email gateway, the To: field is used to specify the mobile number to send the message to. The address is:
where '<mobile-number>' is replaced with the mobile number of the recipient. For example to send to the mobile number 07777123123, the address to put in the To: field is either:
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Numbers in international format should not include any leading zeros or + signs. |
Please note that you cannot put multiple numbers in the To: field, only one number per email. If you want to send a message to multiple recipients, please see Advanced Use.
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Please note that the email address you use for basic use should end in textmarketer.biz (as above) and NOT textmarketer.co.uk. |
Email Body
The content of your email is the message you wish to send to the recipient. Your message can be on more than one line, by default it must end with two #.
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You can change the termination string ## to anything you like up to 2 characters or you can disable it completely. To change the settings, log in to your account then navigate to: Account Settings. Complete the “Message Termination” box with your changes then click on the save button.
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There are some restrictions on the characters you can use in the email, please see Advanced Use.
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Everything in your email up to the ## will be sent to the recipient, so be careful how much you write. Remember that a normal text message is only 160 characters.
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Please call 02012345678 to book your next car service.## |
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Please call 02012345678 to book your next car service |
How much is 160 characters?
The multi-line example is exactly 160 characters
So everything up to the ## is sent in the message, and the rest is discarded. This means that if your email software automatically includes a signature at the end of your email, it will not be sent to the recipient.
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Hi George, |
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Hi George, |
Long messages
The originator/sender
The originator of the message is what is displayed to the recipient as 'the sender'. This can be text (up to 11 characters) or a mobile number (up to 16 digits), . For example, you might want the originator to be “Hair Salon”. Or you might want it set to Joe's mobile number, so that people who reply to the message will send it directly to Joe's mobile.
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For more advanced 2-way messaging, see Two-way messaging with txtUs© and reply keywords |
The originator is set by including a line in the email body that ends with a '#', e.g.: Hair Salon#
You'll notice that the originator ends with one '#', whereas the message ends with a double '##'. It doesn't matter whether the message comes first, or the originator comes first, so long as the ending is correct. As shown in the examples 1 and 2.
Will both work, and will mean the recipient see's the sender as "Hair Salon".
If you do not set an originator in the email body, the default originator on your acount will be used.
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Hi Jane, |
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Hair Salon# |