How to send an SMS to an employee department ?

Modified on Tue, 4 Oct, 2016 at 11:40 AM

Inorder to send an SMS to all employees of a department, the Send SMS to Employees checkbox on the SMS Settings page must be selected.

At the top of your dashboard, click the module access icon > Administration > Settings > SMS module > Send SMS to Employees Department to open the Department page.

Note : Only departments that have at least one employee whose profile has a registered mobile number can be selected. If all employees of a department do not have a mobile number saved in their profile, the department will be greyed out cannot be selected.

Select a department(s) to whom you want to send the SMS text messages.
Enter the message. You can send up to 160 characters in a message and this will be counted/charged as one message. If the message contains more than 160 characters, the message is broken and delivered as separate messages, and you will be charged accordingly.
Click the Send SMS button.

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