How To Send A One-Off SMS To Multiple Contacts

Using Bulk Actions with Contacts or Smart Lists, you can perform multiple one-off actions on your chosen contacts. Here’s how to send a one-off SMS to multiple contacts:

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Click "Contacts"

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Select the contact(s) that you wish to send a one-off SMS.

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Click the "Send SMS" button.

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Click "Ok, proceed"

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Click the "Type a message" field.

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Type an SMS message.

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Click the tags icon to insert Custom Values / Merge Fields into your SMS.

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Hover over "Contact", then "First Name," and click "First Name" to insert the contact's first name in each message.

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Click pin icon to add to your SMS.

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Click the emoji icon to add emoji's to your SMS.

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Select the emojis you wish to add to your SMS.

How would you like to send your one-off SMS?

Add all at once - Perfect for sending out a handful of one-off SMS messages

Add all at a scheduled time - Perfect for sending out a handful of one-off SMS messages in the future.

Add in drip mode (RECOMMENDED) - Perfect for sending out even large quantities of one-off SMS messages in bite-sized batches over a specified interval (e.g. send batches of 1 review request via SMS every 5 minutes).

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Click "Send all at once"

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Click the "Action" field.

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Type a description for the action (to be shown in tracking report)

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Click "Send SMS"

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Click "Ok"

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Click "Send all at schedule time"

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Click the "Action" field.

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Type a description for the action (to be shown in the tracking report)

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Click the "Start On" field.

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Click the "Start On" date and time.

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Click the "Green Tick" button.

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Click "Send SMS"

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Click "Ok"

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Click "Send in drip mode"

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Click the "Action" field.

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Type a description for the action (to be shown in tracking report)

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Click the "Start On" field.

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Click the "Start On" day and time.

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Click the "Green Tick" button.

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Click the "Batch Quantity" field.

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Click the "Batch Quantity" field.

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Type in the Batch Quantity. Batch quantity is how many text messages you want to send at a given interval. For example, if you wanted to send 1 SMS every 5 minutes, the batch quantity would be "1".

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Click the "Repeat After" field.

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Enter the "Repeat After" quantity.

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Click the "Days" dropdown.

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Select the repeat after frequency.

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Select the days you would like your drip sequence to go out on.

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Click the "Start From" button.

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Select the "Start From" time.

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Select the "End At" dropdown.

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Select the "End At" time.

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Click "Send SMS"

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Click "Ok"